WASHINGTON — Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the rope in the tug-of-war between the Trump administration and progressive Democrats who don’t really want to see Washington enforce federal immigration law. (RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Hill They’ve Died On)…
I continue this series of five articles on conservative long-term policies, today addressing the issue of security, which is fundamentally about freedom. Because without law, justice, and security, there is no freedom, no private property, and no democracy. I don’t…
In a book written about the landmark Marbury v. Madison case published 2009, Cliff Sloan and David McKean retold a story told by Chief Justice John Roberts about a Russian judge who was chatting with European colleagues at a law…
Law matters. We may have relegated its study to experts, but when law goes wrong or when law disappears, everyone knows it. Two classical texts establish the importance of law as something important to ordinary people, not just lawyers and…
I am not a lawyer, buuut, it seems to me that the rule of law isn’t what it used to be. Get Trump: One Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump for an assault that allegedly occurred some 30 years ago. Unfortunately…
I attended UCLA School of Law from August 1990 to May 1993. I was chief articles editor of the UCLA Law Review and then moved on to clerk for a brilliant (I add: most brilliant) federal appeals court judge, the…
“The more you study modern American government,” Speaker Newt Gingrich writes in “American Despotism,” the first installment of his new American Spectator series, “the more you realize that totalitarian efforts are all around us — and they have been winning…
“America is now in the deepest, most dangerous constitutional crisis since the hostility in the 1850s that led to secession and civil war,” Speaker Newt Gingrich writes in “American Despotism,” the first installment of his new American Spectator series. “The…
At the Supreme Court, the legal doctrines of textualism and originalism have featured prominently in several recent majority opinions. Many opinions have structurally weakened the capital-p Progressive administrative state. These legal doctrines say, respectively, that judges ought to rule consistently…
