The next president will appoint at least one and perhaps as many as three Supreme Court justices, who in turn will have a decisive impact on the Court’s jurisprudence for decades. But last night’s presidential debate revealed that neither of the major-party candidates understands what Supreme Court justices are supposed to do. Moderator Chris Wallace […]
When accepting the Republican nomination in Cleveland last week, Donald Trump said: Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement…. Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have […]
I stayed up way past my bedtime Saturday to watch the Republican debate in South Carolina. With the sad passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, the early part of the debate centered on the candidates’ views of the proper role of the judiciary and their respective preferences in terms of the characteristics that they would emphasize […]
Instead of just criticizing the presidential debate moderators after the fact, I’ve decided to suggest a few questions for them to ask on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. I don’t know if the questions will be good for ratings, but I’d like to know the candidates’ answers to them. 1. Nearly all of you have […]
It came up again at last night’s Democratic debate, so it’s worth repeating: Bernie Sanders and more than 60 other Democrats in Congress were right to support the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), and Hillary Clinton was wrong to oppose it. Congress had both good practical reason and Constitutional authority to enact PLCAA. Its […]