Nationwide Injunctions Are a Threat to Our Constitutional Order
Using nationwide injunctions to stop elected officials from carrying out laws effectively silences the will of voters.
A New House Bill on Syrian Refugees Doesn’t Protect Americans
The current proposal being considered in the House in response to the president’s refugee plan -- the American SAFE Act -- fails to defend the interests of Americans.
Why Should Terrorists Be Harder to Investigate than Routine Criminals?
The 9/11 attacks exposed the dangerous wall separating the intelligence and law-enforcement communities. In response, Congress developed a number of tools to eliminate those barriers so that critical information could ...
Who’s Looking Out for the American Worker?
Editor’s Note: Friday, the Senate debated a bill that will fund most of the federal government through next September and the Department of Homeland Security through February of next year, which passed the ...
A Moment for Choosing
The Senate today considered a motion to prevent President Obama from issuing an executive action effectively offering legal status to illegal immigrants, which he has threatened to do after this ...
Don’t Give the Masters of the Universe Their Amnesty
Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday evening about Senate Democrats’ refusal to support legislation to ...
On Immigration, It’s Time to Defend Americans
The chaos unfolding at the border demonstrates the catastrophic, real-world consequences of the president’s lawless conduct. For the last five years, with average household incomes falling and Americans being pushed out ...
Amnesty Won’t Work
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and ...
Crowding Out U.S. Workers
Several prominent amnesty advocates, including Mark Zuckerberg and top Obama administration officials, have argued that amnesty is a civil right. The claim is, of course, preposterous on its face. Under ...
Reid Flings Open Pandora’s Box
Majority Leader Reid’s decision to exercise the so-called nuclear option — using a bare majority of Senators to rewrite rules and eliminate the filibuster for presidential nominations — may forever ...