Today’s partisan wars over the judiciary are not good for the republic. The right answer is to return judges to their intended role. A second best would be to end life tenure for Supreme Court appointees. In a perfect world,…
“Frankly,” said Ruth Bader Ginsburg in July 2009, “I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that…
What can they do — whine? Threaten to pack the Court? Impeach President Trump for acting under his constitutional duty and with his constitutional authority? They already have been whining for four years. Nothing new there. Hillary Clinton still tells…
When President Trump announced his intention to quickly nominate a successor to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and requested an expeditious confirmation vote in the Senate, the Democrats responded with predictable hysteria. They loudly protested Trump’s alleged violation of…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has landed like an atomic bomb on a trench war. Only six weeks remain until the 2020 general election, and the battle over replacing the progressive icon is on. President Trump already has promised to…
After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on September 18, and Trump’s announcement soon after that he would nominate a replacement for the high court before the election, Democrats on the Hill and in the media declared war against, well, everything:…
The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, on the occasion of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 10th anniversary on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, referred to the diminutive jurist — who would later join him on the high…
While we may never know whether Justice Ruth Ginsburg actually used her last hours to provide a political statement to her granddaughter that she “not be replaced until a new president is installed,” one thing we do know is that…
There has been a lot of criticism about postal voting and the ease with which it can be abused. What has so far been overlooked is how it has also changed the constitution by stealth and reduced the president’s term…