Earlier this month, in National Rifle Association (NRA) v. Vullo, the gun-rights organization won a landmark victory at the Supreme Court. Given the Court’s conservative majority, a casual court-watcher might find this unsurprising. Less intuitively, the NRA received legal representation…
The federal government’s informal censorship campaigns against Americans’ online speech have justifiably ignited public outrage. Extensive reporting, as well as a lawsuit now before the Supreme Court, have revealed that the federal government cajoled and coordinated with social-media platforms to…
They say a good compromise is one in which nobody gets everything, everybody gets something, and nobody likes it. How do the disputing parties on the issue of assault rifle massacres find the common ground needed to agree on a…
Crime is a people problem. If you understand nothing else about crime, you must understand this — crime is committed by people. It is not committed by inanimate objects, and while data on criminal activity can be charted as a…
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil suit against former President Donald Trump and three of his children on Wednesday. Thank goodness her solving New York’s crime problem allows Ms. James to devote resources to civil matters. She seeks…
Every time some lost soul with writhing snakes in his head does something wretched with a gun, as happened in Uvalde, we’re immediately buried in loud, public non-sequiturs: howls to DO SOMETHING! Even though the somethings called for have no…
Washington I spent late Saturday afternoon in what has become for me a rite of spring. I watched the Kentucky Derby. I am no aficionado of horse racing and will not betray my ignorance of the sport’s desiderata in this…
What many have portrayed as an attack on the Second Amendment can now be seen clearly as an attack on the First. While the debate over gun regulation has been longstanding, the current iteration involves an attempt not only to…
Oops! So much has been made about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s use of his billions to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The one-time Republican has met some stiff resistance from the Left because of his billionaire status…
