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Gorsuch Joins Sotomayor’s Majority Opinion in Native American Hunting Case
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to uphold the hunting rights of the Wyoming-based Crow tribe, ruling that a Crow man charged with illegal off-season hunting in the state's Bighorn National Forest was protected by a 150-year-old treaty between the federal government and the tribe.
Justice Neil Gorsuch ...
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The Steele Dossier and the ‘Verified Application’ That Wasn’t
Here’s what you need to know: In rushing out their assessment of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Obama-administration officials chose not to include the risible Steele-dossier allegations that they had put in their “VERIFIED APPLICATION” for warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...
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Attorney General William Barr Makes First Ruling Against Asylum Seekers
The U.S. Attorney General is ending asylum seekers’ opportunity to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge.
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Anti-Catholic ‘Blaine Amendments’ Harm Children Now, in the 21st Century
Republican James G. Blaine (1830–1893) was a House speaker, senator, and two-time secretary of state, but he is remembered, if at all, for this doggerel: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine / the continental liar from the state of Maine." His lasting legacy, however, is even more disreputable than his involvement ...
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ESPN President: ‘Our Fans Do Not Want Us to Cover Politics’
Does it seem you hear a little bit less about political controversies in the sports world than you did a year or two ago? Do you find yourself grumbling at your television, “I just want to enjoy watching the game” less frequently?
Today’s Los Angeles Times profiles ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro, who took ...
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A Sad Finale
Spoilers Ahead.
Look, I share David’s love of Game of Thrones. But I thought the finale was largely a bust, for failings David mostly acknowledges in passing (but does not allow to dampen his ardor). The problems with the finale were largely the problems of this entire season. Characters that had been ...
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The Great Misdirection
The House Democrats are frustrated, very frustrated.
They’ve gotten themselves entangled in procedural disputes with the Trump administration that no one particularly cares about and that might be litigated for a very long time.
A Washington Post report over the weekend spelled out how stymied Democrats ...
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Australia’s Voters Reject Leftist Ideas
Hell hath no fury greater than left-wingers who lose an election in a surprise upset. Think Brexit in 2016. Think Trump’s victory the same year. Now add Australia.
Conservative prime minister Scott Morrison shocked pollsters and pundits alike with his victory on Saturday, and the reaction has been brutal ...
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Bernie Sanders Launches a Deeply Misguided Attack on Charter Schools
One of the great benefits of living life well outside the Beltway is that it’s easy to take my eyes off the swamp, look to the states surrounding me, and see places where politics actually function as they’re supposed to. I can even, occasionally, see those issues on which Democrats and Republicans might work ...
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We’ve Had Bill Barr’s Back
One of the more dismaying features of the national political debate lately is how casually and cynically Attorney General Bill Barr has been smeared.
He is routinely compared to Roy Cohn on a cable-TV program that prides itself on assembling the most thoughtful and plugged-in political analysts and ...
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