WASHINGTON — Leonard Leo, the founder of the Federalist Society and of various other conservative groups, is sitting on a bundle of money. Moreover, he is giving a lot of it away. He is not giving it to any left-wing…
After a half century, Roe v. Wade, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions — and there have been several doozies — is history. The ruling was controversial at the time and generated increasing political opposition over time. The opening…
The flyer urging activists to protest in front of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s Maryland home offers two reasons for violating the privacy of a public servant and his family. The first: President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch. The message…
Let’s call the mass gatherings held outside the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh what they are: They’re not protests; they are mob intimidation. When activists gather and chant in front of justices’…
The leak of the Supreme Court’s February draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a political act that proved, redundantly, how thoroughly politics has invaded the court. Equally important is the fact that the leak was a…
Poor Justice Stephen Breyer. A reliable liberal — or “progressive,” to use current parlance — vote on the Supreme Court since 1994, he is resisting efforts to shove him off the bench. And it is his professed friends who are…
In a previous American Spectator article, “Dems to Supremes: Shape Up or Pack Up!,” I examined the lessons to be drawn from Franklin Roosevelt’s failed 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court by raising the number of justices from nine…
A few days ago, a friend at a dinner party posed a question to the crowded table: “Be honest,” he said. “Have any of you ever felt real generational animosity?” It didn’t take much thought to respond in the negative….
As I emerged from the Jewish Holy Season, marking the beginning of Year 5781 since Creation, I was jolted from the spirituality and meaningfulness of Sukkot, Sh’mini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah into the reality of the New Filth that permeates…
