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Authoritarianism for Me but Not for Thee Mar. 23, 2018
It's funny how projection works. These hysterical Democrats calling for President Trump's impeachmen... Read More
March Madness, Washington-Style Mar. 22, 2018
For the past few days, the nation's media and political class have been fixated on the firing of the... Read More
Make it Work Feb. 22, 2018
Make our current systems work first — then figure out if additional changes are needed. This p... Read More
Lying, Spying and Hiding Feb. 01, 2018
I have argued for a few weeks now that House Intelligence Committee members have committed misconduc... Read More
A Conspiracy of Silence Assaults Privacy Jan. 25, 2018
During the past three weeks, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law vast new pow... Read More
Constitutional Ignorance -- Perhaps Contempt Jan. 17, 2018
Hillary Clinton blamed the Electoral College for her stunning defeat in the 2016 presidential electi... Read More
Trump's Greatest Generation Jan. 15, 2018
I believe the newspaper columnist's job is to take a step to the side, to take a look at things from... Read More
Congress Plotting to Cut a Hole in the 4th Amendment, Again Jan. 11, 2018
Hidden beneath the controversy stirred up last week by the publication of a book called "Fire and Fu... Read More
Hangover Cure Jan. 01, 2018
I get some of my best ideas drinking coffee. I get good ideas drinking whiskey, too, but I forget th... Read More
Coming to Terms with U.S. History Dec. 06, 2017
You can learn a lot about American history not only by studying wars, treaties and laws but also by ... Read More
His Day in Court Nov. 17, 2017
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary," James Madison argued in Federalist 51. But h... Read More
Senate Prepares to Strike a Blow for Freedom Nov. 15, 2017
Eight years ago, Sen. Orrin Hatch argued in a Senate Finance Committee then controlled by Democrats ... Read More
Policy Can't Trump Undermining of Democratic Norms Nov. 03, 2017
For conservatives who support much of President Donald Trump's agenda but find his character and com... Read More
Can the Feds Prosecute Foreigners if Their Actions Are Legal Where They Are? Oct. 26, 2017
I am in Switzerland this week interacting with and lecturing to students and faculty at the Universi... Read More
Democrats Yelp as Trump Upholds Constitution Oct. 20, 2017
Donald Trump is criticized, often justly, for misstatements of facts and failure to understand the d... Read More
Trump and Obamacare Oct. 19, 2017
Late last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the secretaries of the tr... Read More
Trump Declares War on the Constitution Oct. 15, 2017
Donald Trump is to conservatism as SpaghettiOs are to Italian food: a distant, crude and almost unre... Read More
Is Taking a Knee Protected Speech? Oct. 12, 2017
"The constitutionally guaranteed 'freedom to be intellectually ... diverse or even contrary,' and th... Read More
An Important New Step for Religious Freedom Oct. 11, 2017
Arguing for protection of religious freedom, the Trump administration has opened the door for employ... Read More
To Limit Gerrymandering, Supreme Court Needs Just to Reaffirm Equal Population Requirement Sep. 29, 2017
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Gill v. Whitford, a case challenging Wiscons... Read More
