By: Lathan Watts – americanthinker.com – August 8, 2019 If you ask most Americans if they want judges who are presently serving on state or federal courts to act like politicians, you’d likely get a resounding “No.” Take, for example, a 2016 Marist poll in which 52 percent of Americans say they want the Court to interpret the Constitution “as it was originally...

By: Lathan Watts – americanthinker.com – August 8, 2019 If you ask most Americans if they want judges who are presently serving on state or federal courts to act like politicians, you’d likely get a resounding “No.” Take, for example, a 2016 Marist poll in which 52 percent of Americans say they want the Court to interpret the Constitution “as it was originally...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 15, 2019 By excusing the lies Senators Warren and Harris told about Michael Brown’s death, the fact-checking site abandoned its mission. In theory, fact-checking is a valuable media enterprise. No one will do it perfectly — human beings are fallible, after all — but to do it well requires a kind of flinty moral...

By: Alan S. Blinder – wsj.com – August 14, 201 In my book “Hard Heads, Soft Hearts” (1987), I bemoaned that it was difficult to be both a Democrat and an economist. Democrats, I wrote, often advocated economic policies that were well-intentioned but softheaded. Yes, ends matter, but so do means. Later, it became easy to be a Democrat and an...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 15, 2019 When liberals worry about losing a major Supreme Court case, they usually make appeals to the Court’s “legitimacy.” This is intended to attract Chief Justice John Roberts by suggesting that a conservative outcome would damage the institution’s reputation. The ritual is disingenuous but usually subtle. Five Democratic Senators have had it...

Democrats order the Justices to drop a gun case—or else. Source: Senators File an Enemy-of-the-Court Brief – WSJ

By: ADF Staff – adflegal.org – July 20, 2019 Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Michigan funeral home filed a petition Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the court to review a lower-court decision that redefines the word “sex” in federal law to mean “gender identity.” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – August 14, 2019 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are Nazis. They have concentration camps set up at the border. They should be abolished. That’s the narrative that Democrats, the liberal media, and their activist goons have been peddling for months and the results have turned violent. In Tacoma, Washington, an activist with the extreme...

By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – August 8, 2019 Democrats insist there’s no more urgent job than ensuring Donald Trump is a one-term president. Which is odd, given how hard they are simultaneously working to alienate the voters they most need to make that happen. See this week’s debate on gun control. The weekend’s shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton,...

By: Alexandra Desanctis – nationalreview.com – August 13, 2019 The Harvard Law professor has trouble with basic facts — or perhaps he prefers to disregard them to suit his agenda.A  cherished myth of abortion-rights supporters is making the rounds again, this time peddled by someone who should know better: Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe. Despite having argued dozens of cases before the...