After nearly four years in the White House, two central pillars in the emerging Biden/Harris administration legacy have been its inexplicable economic mismanagement and its flagrant administrative state overreach.   In the case of economic mismanagement, the administration’s policies have resulted in deepening hardship for American…

It's difficult to make substantive arguments against the Democrats' Supreme Court "reform" proposal, since everyone knows it's just a cynical ploy to delegitimize both the court and the Constitution. Ask yourself this: Would any Democrat support the president's court-packing scheme if they believed Republicans would win both Houses and the…

July 4th naturally occasions an uptick in reading the Declaration of Independence, whose recitation of transgressions by the king includes the following:  “He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.”   What we now derisively label the &…

Whether you live in a city or a small town, you're a winner because of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, announced on Friday. The Supremes ruled 6-3 that municipalities can ban homeless encampments from sidewalks, parks and other public areas. Sleeping in the rough is not a constitutionally guaranteed right, said…

Things aren't going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year.  The electric vehicle movement is stalled out, solar and wind power are both still fringe forms of energy,…

The United States Constitution vests all legislative powers in Congress. Yet, over the past century, we've witnessed a disturbing trend of legislators increasingly delegating much of the authority to set the laws that govern the land to the executive branch, which includes unelected officials at administrative agencies. This undermines democratic accountability…

With Memorial Day now behind us and November’s presidential election increasingly within view, electoral trends are becoming increasingly obvious and Joe Biden’s desperation increasingly transparent.   Biden hasn’t led Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics aggregate of polls in nearly nine months, since September 10, 2023…

The trial of former President Donald Trump is heading toward a conclusion. For those who at the beginning thought the case was weak and politically motivated, the presentation of the prosecution's evidence has made it seem even weaker and more politically motivated. A conviction will not change that. On the other side, though, some in the anti-Trump…

Perhaps the weirdest, and by far the most unjust, thing about former President Donald Trump's trial in New York is that we do not know precisely what crime Trump is charged with committing. We're in the middle of the trial, with Trump facing a maximum of more than 100 years in prison, and we don't even know what the charges are! It's a surreal situation…

In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a "right" to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual victims of that crazy idea. Homeless advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court that living on the streets is a "victimless" crime. Victimless? Everyone who has to step over…

Donald Trump was first indicted nearly a year ago, on April 4, 2023, when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced charges against the former president over a nondisclosure agreement Trump used to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had apparently had a brief sexual encounter. Bragg, an elected Democrat, won office…

We are not the first court to look through forms to the substance and recognize that informal censorship may sufficiently inhibit the circulation of publications to warrant injunctive relief.   That was the United States Supreme Court in Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan (1963), which held that government can violate First Amendment free speech…

In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled states cannot use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to kick former President Donald Trump off state ballots over his alleged "insurrectionist" actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Learning that state officials aren't empowered to simply toss leading presidential candidates off ballots came as a great surprise…

New York State Attorney General Letitia James has a beef with beef. This week James sued the JBS USA Food Company, the U.S. subsidiary of the world's largest beef producer, accusing it of "fraudulent and illegal business activities" and demanding "disgorgement of all profits and ill-gotten gains." Disregard the inflammatory language…

Donald Trump has just a few weeks to find a way to pay, or guarantee that he will pay, the $355 million fine that a New York judge imposed on him in the lawsuit brought by the state's Democratic Attorney General Letitia James. The suit was the culmination of James' campaign to bring financial ruin on the former president, and it might succeed; unless…

The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord over you. If you refuse, you'll be ruined. You have little recourse. You've never even voted on the policy because no law implementing it exists. Bureaucrats in D.C. cooked up the idea, and a political appointee signed off on it. That's what Loper…

Increasingly alarmed by Joe Biden’s record-low presidential approval ratings that somehow continue to deteriorate – this week brought more bad news with an ABC News poll showing him at just 33% – his electoral salvage team possesses few viable strategies beyond slurring former president Donald Trump as some sort of existential threat…

Tired of stepping over needles and human waste, and navigating around half-conscious addicts and homeless encampments? You're not alone. Most decent, hardworking people want clean sidewalks for getting to work and walking their kids to school.  But cities are legally barred from cleaning up homeless encampments. Advocates went to court and won…

When the American Civil Liberties Union goes to bat for Donald Trump, it's a red flag. The ACLU generally fights for far-left causes. But the ACLU always has championed the rights of the accused. This time, the accused is Trump. The ACLU is protesting a gag order imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Oct. 17 to silence Trump, at the…

The United States Supreme Court began its new term this week, featuring pivotal cases involving the Second Amendment, environmental regulation, social media content regulation and Congressional districting.   None of those issues, however, exceed in importance a case heard this week regarding the rogue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…

You may have heard the Biden Justice Department is suing Google in federal court for being a "monopoly." That's a bizarre charge given that few, if any companies in all American history have lowered prices more than Google – which provides access to information that used to take hours or days to find – with…

Innocent until proven guilty. That's a fundamental right in America, at least until now. Anti-Trump groups determined to disqualify the leading Republican candidate for president are urging state election officials across the U.S. to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, claiming he's an "insurrectionist." They're citing an arcane clause…

In America, every defendant is supposed to get a fair trial. It's guaranteed in our Bill of Rights. That guarantee sets us apart from banana republics, and we take pride in it. Democratic prosecutors have rolled out four indictments against former President Donald Trump, including the latest by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, announced…

Day by day, your right to speak freely is being robbed by the Biden administration. This time, Team Biden wants to gag defendants from criticizing government prosecutors. That's how courts are run in countries like Pakistan, Russia and North Korea.  Anyone can fall into the government's crosshairs. Imagine being prosecuted and being unable to…

President Joe Biden has played his cards: all bluff, no aces.  Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit accused of what Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty calls "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history." Yet the appeal Biden filed on Monday is devoid of even one winning argument in his own defense. Count…

The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that racial preferences in college admissions violate the U.S. Constitution. At last! No student with high grades and test scores should be rejected in favor of a lesser applicant who happens to have a certain skin color.  The evidence provided to the court showed that Harvard College and the University of North…

The last year has shown the power of a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Conservatives had a 5-4 majority for years and were not able to overturn Roe v. Wade or get rid of affirmative action. Now, with a six-member majority, half of them appointed by former President Donald Trump, the conservative bloc on the Court has done both those…

If you own a business, the leftists in Congress are coming after you. The only thing standing in their way is the U.S. Constitution. Whether you own a mom-and-pop diner, an auto repair shop or shares in a multinational corporation, your property is at risk. The Constitution's takings clause was designed to protect us from government grabbing our…

Should labor unions possess immunity to deliberately destroy employer property under the claim that such behavior was "incidental to a strike arguably protected by federal law?" The fact that it remained an open legal question illustrates just how egregiously contemporary labor law favors unions.   After all, imagine the uproar…

"We have studiously attempted to work our way around it, and even left it unremarked.  But the fact is Chevron and Brand X permit executive bureaucracies to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution and the framers…