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McConnell’s moment was a long time coming
I want to call your attention to this article by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard on how McConnell twisted arms to get the Gorsuch nomination. Some of the usual suspects—Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Bob Corker were extremely hesitant … Continue reading →
Gorsuch is confirmed
Good. It wasn’t easy to get there, but it’s done. That’s one of the main reasons a lot of people on the right held their noses and voted for Trump.
Continue reading →A little nuclear option history
Here’s a bit of nuclear option history: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was smugly looking ahead to the presidency of Hillary Clinton last October and the possibility that Senate Republicans might dare to filibuster the new president’s Supreme Court … Continue reading →
The Susan Rice unmasking timeline and motives
Yesterday “The Other Chuck” had several questions, and this was one of them: There are several things about the unmasking by Rice other than the political angle that bother me. If it was motivated purely by politics, surely she would … Continue reading →
Why did Susan Rice request the unmasking?
Andrew C. McCarthy has an important point to make about Susan Rice and the ummasking: The national-security adviser is not an investigator. She is a White House staffer. The president’s staff is a consumer of intelligence, not a generator or … Continue reading →
Hawaii judge enjoins Trump from issuing executive orders
District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii has been in the news quite a bit lately. You may recall that he was one of several judges who issued orders in separate but similar cases to block Trump’s revised EO regarding travel … Continue reading →
Let’s hear it for the editors of the LA Times
That title wasn’t sarcasm; I mean it. The editors of the Los Angeles Times thinks it was overreach for California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra to charge the makers of the Planned Parenthood videos with crimes: There’s no question that anti-abortion … Continue reading →
Another attempt to prosecute the makers of the Planned Parenthood videos
It happened before, in Texas. Now it’s happening in California: The duo who bravely exposed Planned Parenthood’s baby body parts operation through undercover videos has been charged by California prosecutors with 15 new felony counts. In 2016, both David Daleiden … Continue reading →
Sanctuary mayors defy Trump
Of course they do. When a president tries to go against many years of local policies that have successfully defied the federal government—with some of those years involving the cooperation of the federal government in that defiance—it’s not going to … Continue reading →
So, what’s going on with Gorsuch?
Remember him? One of these days the Senate is going to vote on his nomination, and it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that they’ll approve him. But not just yet. And the mechanism by which it will happen—in particular, whether … Continue reading →
Obama’s judiciary legacy
I don’t recall that in my youth people spoke all that much about a president’s “legacy.” In recent decades it’s been all the rage, though, and that legacy usually gets evaluated and re-evaluated while a person is president, and not … Continue reading →