By Steven Hayward. Justice Clarence Thomas has long been a figure of ridicule and contempt, even hatred, from the left. Had he been a liberal, he almost certainly would have been their champion and hero: black, and raised in abject … Continue reading →
Paul Manafort’s trial begins today. As Liz Sheld writes: Manafort is not on trial for anything related to treasonous RUSSIAN collusion, he is on trial for working for President Trump’s campaign and for being a sleazy political consultant, which is … Continue reading →
Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution: You have to read the whole 14th Amendment. There’s a clause in the middle that people ignore or they misinterpret — “subject … Continue reading →
The right’s been going crazy about this statement by RBG: I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said Sunday, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least … Continue reading →
Great article by Kimberly Strassel. Some excerpts: Mr. Nunes, 44, was elected to Congress in 2002 from Central California. He joined the Intelligence Committee in 2011 and delved into the statutes, standards and norms that underpin U.S. spying. That taught … Continue reading →
The title of this post refers to the old joke about the optimistic child: There is a famous joke about a child who wakes up on Christmas morning and is surprised to find a heap of horse manure under the … Continue reading →
And what of the tape CNN played of a conversation between Trump’s attorney and Trump himself discussing possibly buying the rights to a Playboy bunny’s story of Trump infidelity? Salient points: (1) There’s no there there. No evidence of a … Continue reading →
The FISA application for surveillance on Carter Page finally was released to the public on Saturday, in a heavily redacted but lengthy version. Saturday is the time that news stories ordinarily go to die, but this one has gotten quite … Continue reading →
The timing of the indictments, on the eve of Trump’s visit to Russia and meeting with Putin, is certainly interesting. Eleven of the 12 Russian operatives are charged with either hacking into or “spearphishing” (sending emails to trick people into … Continue reading →
I watched some of it, and plan to watch some more but certainly far from all of it. One reason I won’t watch much is that I already know what left and right will be doing. But another big reason, … Continue reading →
See this in National Review by Jonathan S. Tobin: The irony here for Democrats is that the “resistance” is fueled by their conviction that Trump has violated key norms and threatens the institutions of democracy. Yet if there is one … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] In evaluating judicial nominations and predicting the drift of a judge’s future decisions, one caveat I would offer is that nearly any judge with a long history is going to have decided some … Continue reading →