

Republicans are wrong to treat Kavanaugh and Ford as standing on the same moral plane.

Abortion and the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: A Plan for Senate Republicans
At Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate hearings, Republicans should refer to pending legislation against late-term abortion.

The True Meaning of the Pentagon Papers
The landmark court case has been wrongly remembered.

Bring Back That ‘Do-Nothing Republican Congress’
The Republican Congress and preisdent can work together to roll back recent decades’ vast expansion of federal power.

Antonin Scalia: A Spirited Life in the Law
Antonin Scalia was a jurist of subtlety and power, who helped shape the Supreme Court over the course of nearly three decades.

Once More unto the Breach
What are the principles that lie behind the Constitution, and that inform judicial opinions on points that the Constitution does not mention explicitly?

Judge Sutton Buys Time
A funny thing happened to the Zeitgeist last week as it was rolling through the federal courts, with judges striking down the laws on marriage in state after state and ...

Lessons of Nixon’s Departure
We are marking this week the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation, with the helicopter lifting him away from the White House and out of Washington. In one of those ...

The McCullen Case and the Craft of John Roberts
At this time of the year, we’re often invoking Mark Twain’s line on Wagner’s music: that it wasn’t “as bad as it sounds.” The outcome, announced today, in McCullen v. ...
Laughable Distinctions on Gosnell: From the Defense, From Planned Parenthood, and More
Today in Philadelphia, the judge complimented the jurors on the serious way in which they deliberated on what he called a “difficult case.” But it is one of the wonders of ...