The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last November about whether President Trump exceeded his executive authority by imposing what some are calling “sweeping, worldwide tariffs” in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump. While we wait for the high court to render a decision, John Yoo, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor and visiting scholar… Continue reading How the Supreme Court Is Likely to Rule on Trump’s Tariffs | Dr. John Yoo
Don Lemon Wants a New Legal Standard: Journalism Are Immune From the Law
Does former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon have a First Amendment right to interfere with the First Amendment rights of the worshipers and pastor at that church? “I think the question answers itself, and the answer is no,” argues Scott Johnson, a Minneapolis-based attorney, Claremont Institute fellow, founding member of Power Line and… Continue reading Don Lemon Wants a New Legal Standard: Journalism Are Immune From the Law
Who Owns the University?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The most recent shout-down debacle at Stanford’s law school, one of many such recent sordid episodes, prompts the question: “Who owns our universities?” The law students who are in residence for three years apparently assume they embody the university. And so, they believe they represent and speak for a score… Continue reading Who Owns the University?
Equal Justice, They Said
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra “some are more equal than others” was the hallowed American idea of “equal justice under the law.” The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court—an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it… Continue reading Equal Justice, They Said
Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Court packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence. The tradition of a nine-person Supreme Court is now 153 years old. The last attempt to expand it for political gain was President Franklin… Continue reading Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
Class Warfare, An American Tradition
We are no more partisan today than we were at the nation’s founding. by Bruce S. Thornton // Defining Ideas Are we more “polarized” and “partisan” than we were in the past? Political commentators think so. In a recentAtlantic profile, conservative pollster Frank Luntz attributed his cynicism about American politics to the unprecedented polarization of the American… Continue reading Class Warfare, An American Tradition
Executive Tyranny: The Problem’s Bigger Than Obama
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Barack Obama is threatening to bypass Congress and use executive orders to achieve the policy changes he can’t get through legislation. “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need,” he said… Continue reading Executive Tyranny: The Problem’s Bigger Than Obama
The Political Debate We Need to Have
Today, we treat politics as a sport, but it’s really a conflict of ideologies between federalists and technocrats. by Bruce S. Thornton // Defining Ideas The media and pundits treat politics like a sport. The significance of the recent agreement to postpone the debt crisis until January, for instance, is really about which party won and… Continue reading The Political Debate We Need to Have
Barack Obama and the Bad Ideas of Progressivism
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Barack Obama’s serial gross incompetence has elicited all sorts of explanatory theories. He’s a closet socialist, an Alinskyite radical, a secret Muslim, or an anti-American internationalist. Though some of Obama’s words and deeds give support to all these speculations, I prefer a simpler explanation. Obama is a Progressive––not a… Continue reading Barack Obama and the Bad Ideas of Progressivism
What Would the Founders Think of Defunding Obamacare?
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine A few days ago CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin, speaking about the Republican House bill defunding Obamacare, commented, “Certainly not the way the Founding Fathers maybe drew this thing up.” It’s certainly a surprise to hear an anchor on CNN, an organization biased in favor of progressives, appealing to the… Continue reading What Would the Founders Think of Defunding Obamacare?