Gorsuch Confounding Expectations
President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.
President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.
Pete Butttigieg has spent the past week dealing with a crisis back in South Bend. How he handles it could have a significant impact on his campaign.
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial in the case of a Mississippi defendant whose trial was tainted by a prosecutor who routinely struck black jurors from the jury pool.
The Supreme Court has ruled to keep the long-standing “dual sovereigns” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause in place.
As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.
At least some segments of the “pro-life” movement seem more concerned with policing morality than they do with protecting life.
David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.
The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.
Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.
So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.
President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.
Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.
Two weeks into his campaign, Joe Biden continues to build an impressive lead in polling at the state and national levels.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.
There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.
Despite seemingly ideal conditions, Green Mountain Care was an absolute debacle.
Stephen Moore, who has been nominated to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board by President Trump. has a history of controversial remarks about women.
The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?
The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.
The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.
It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.
Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?
For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.
Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.
In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.
The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.
It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.
Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”
Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.
For now,former President Obama is staying on the sidelines in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey Toobin speculates that Clarence Thomas could be the next Supreme Court Justice to step aside.
The President will sign the bill to fund the government and avert another government shutdown, but in doing so he’ll also lay the groundwork for another showdown with Congress.
If all goes well, the bill to avert another shutdown should become law today.
A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.
Late last night, the Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana abortion law from going into effect, the first significant abortion rights ruling since Justice Kavanaugh took the bench.
The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.
New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.
A leading conservative makes a truly bizarre defense of the President.
Bernie Sanders is facing questions about sexual harassment from women who worked on his 2016 campaign as he prepares a likely run for President in 2020.
The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the Trump Administration to have an injunction against its new asylum policy lifted.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving state laws banning Medicaid reimbursement for non-abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood.
Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.
Later this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could rewrite decades of law interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy rule.
Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.
Once again, people on the left are complaining that Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire when they wanted her to.
The Governor’s race in Florida is over, and the Senate race isn’t far behind.