The lower President Biden sinks in the polls, the more outlandish his claims about his likely 2024 opponent become. He insists that the main reason he is running for another term is that former President Trump poses an existential threat…
Within minutes after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot began, the Democrats, the corporate media, and countless progressive law professors unanimously declared that it was an “insurrection.” Inevitably, they accused then-President Trump of inciting this purported uprising in order…
Rudimentary U.S. civics courses teach that the federal government has three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Each possesses a distinct power set. In Article III, the Constitution vests in the courts the bulk of judiciary authority. These fundamental facts of America’s…
Populist conservatives have made their peace with big government and seem to spend their time these days fighting symbolic culture-war battles over such silliness as drag shows. Many of their “solutions” involve owning the libs by harnessing state power on…
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been hauled into court plenty of times, having experienced its fair share of administrative and election law cases. But now, America’s mail carrier faces fundamental questions over religious tolerance at the post office. USA…
To what extent must an employer accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs or practices? As of January 13, that religious liberty question will be taken up by the Supreme Court, which will consider Groff v. DeJoy in its spring term. The case addresses…
Conservatives won a nice court victory last week. Just before Christmas it was reported that the soccer player Kiersten Hening won the first stage of a case against her former Virginia Tech coach, who allegedly benched her for refusing to…
The Worst Supreme Court Decisions in History is the title of a new book I am writing. It begins by identifying what makes a Supreme Court decision bad, an issue on which reasonable people can disagree. For me, the most…
The U.S. Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper last week. The case involves a mundane constitutional issue concerning the definition of “legislature” as used in the elections clause. Yet it has produced panic among Democrats and…