Politics & Policy

Issues of Primary Importance

By Douglas W. Kmiec November 28, 2007

With just 30-something electoral shopping days until the Iowa caucus, and the New Hampshire primary, indecision reigns, and its clear from some of the video submissions being considered for tonight’s ...

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Revising Kennedy

By Douglas W. Kmiec November 14, 2007

This weekend at a gathering in New Hampshire, Governor Mitt Romney was asked, yet again, whether he would give a speech outlining his religious beliefs. He said ...

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An Indefensible Line

By Douglas W. Kmiec October 11, 2007

My friend, Steve Calabresi, is a prolific scholar and one of the nicest people you ever could meet.  Confronted with Mayor Guiliani’s lapse in principle and reasoning, represented by his ...

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Rudy Awakening

By Douglas W. Kmiec October 10, 2007

Tuesday night’s Michigan debate was very revealing. The debate revealed the significant executive-leadership differences between Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. When it gets down to specific cases, Mayor Giuliani is ...

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Injudicious

By Douglas W. Kmiec January 30, 2006

John Kerry is still pushing to block Sam Alito by means of unprecedented, and unwarranted, filibuster. Kerry and fellow Democrat Ted Kennedy urge a filibuster as a “vote for history,” ...

Alito–Day One

By Douglas W. Kmiec January 10, 2006

John Roberts declared himself an umpire. Sam Alito hit the homerun. For hours , the committee membership laid out the usual points of reference — abortion, deference ...

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In The Tradition of Brennan

By Douglas W. Kmiec July 20, 2005

Jhn Roberts is Bill Brennan. No, no. (Don’t worry.) Not in terms of liberal ideology, but in the splendid gifts he brings to the Court. Like the late Justice William Brennan, ...

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Delay Is Good

By Douglas W. Kmiec July 15, 2005

The chief justice has not retired–and says he has no intention to anytime soon. The decision is most honorable–indeed, given his illness, self-less, if not near heroic. I am certain the ...

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Forfeiting Principle

By Douglas W. Kmiec May 25, 2005

A statesman in an age when political parties still occasionally supplied them, Adlai Stevenson once posited that “it is easier to fight for principles, than to keep them.” The filibuster ...

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A Tortured Issue

By Douglas W. Kmiec January 18, 2005

Terrorists received good news and bad news last week. According to USA Today, most Americans (69 percent) oppose torturing war-on-terror detainees by exposing them to dogs. Unfortunately, an equivalent number ...