[ad_1] (Chip East/Reuters) 1972—By a vote of 5 to 4, the en banc D.C. Circuit, in an opinion by Judge J. Skelly Wright in United States v. Robinson, rules that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when, in the course of searching a person whom he had lawfully arrested, he opened up a crumpled

[ad_1] Demonstrators protest against racial inequality in New York City, June 11, 2020. (Idris Solomon/Reuters) Conservatives must recognize liberals’ radical race rhetoric as the power grab it is. Liberals are expanding the definition of racism to silence their political opponents and justify their expansive claims on power. Despite America’s penchant for comeback stories and apology

[ad_1] Pro-life demonstrators pass the U.S. Capitol during the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) The New York Times columnist uses a series of “questions” — not all of them phrased in a way that would be acceptable on Jeopardy — to urge religious conservatives to adopt

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden salutes at a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, October 30, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) On Election Day, this #NeverBiden voter will vote. Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective,

[ad_1] Signs at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., 2017 (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) It’s an odd thing when secular, liberal pundits brandish the Bible to suit their own policy preferences. The New York Times columnist Nick Kristof begs a number of questions in his new pro-abortion column, “Er, Can I Ask a Few

[ad_1] President Donald Trump attends a rally in Manchester, N.H., August 15, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Whether Donald Trump gets a second term or not, he deserves credit for the achievements of his first. After I had gotten my first cup of coffee the other day, I did what I usually do early on Tuesday mornings:

[ad_1] Graduating students enter the Paladin stadium at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., May 31, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters) A white university professor who falsely claimed Mexican heritage resigned suddenly on Tuesday after an anonymous writer raised questions about her background. Kelly Kean Sharp, a scholar of African-American history, resigned from her position as assistant professor

[ad_1] Uber driver Jim Pyatt in his car. Ride-share & delivery companies have pumped almost $200 million into Prop 22 Seven years ago, Jan Krueger’s daughter called with some news: She’d quit her job. Instead of getting a new one, she was making money driving strangers around town in her car, which, by the way,

[ad_1] President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon, Ga., October 16, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump is locked in a dead heat with Joe Biden in the long-red state. If he loses, its two incumbent Republican senators could follow suit. Four years ago, Donald Trump defeated Hillary

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren waves to supporters at her Super Tuesday night rally in Detroit, Mich., March 3, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has her eyes set on the role of Treasury secretary if Joe Biden wins the presidency next week, according to a new report. Three Democratic officials

[ad_1] ( Zolnierek/Getty Images) Before being picked by President Trump to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Julius (Jay) Richardson was known as one of the most talented prosecutors in the country. After clerking for Chief Justice Rehnquist and spending three years as a litigator at a

[ad_1] Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies before a House Financial Services Committee in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/Reuters) Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday said that he first learned about a letter House speaker Nancy Pelosi sent to him regarding coronavirus stimulus talks “in the press.” “I woke up this morning and read

[ad_1] A person receives a throat swab from a healthcare worker at a drive-thru testing site as the coronavirus outbreak continues in Bismarck, N.D., October 26, 2020. (Bing Guan/Reuters) The United States set a new record for the highest number of new daily coronavirus cases on Thursday — more than 90,000 — as the total

[ad_1] The Earth rising above the Moon’s horizon in July 1969, as seen from Apollo 11 (NASA) With the help of private businesses, the U.S. can get to the moon in less time at a lower cost. NASA’s plan to send the “first woman and next man” to the moon is taking shape. The recently

[ad_1] UCLA campus in 2009. (File photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) In 1896, one man stood alone against the descent of Jim Crow over the South. John Marshall Harlan, in his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, told the Supreme Court’s majority that, after the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, there could be no such thing in

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in Malé, Maldives, October 28, 2020. (Ron Przysucha/State Department) Who knew that the future of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific could hinge on the Maldives? The small island nation is getting some attention following Mike Pompeo’s stop there on his swing through

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Supreme Court has the chance to decide whether a state can routinely compel nonprofits to disclose their donors. You might think that issue was settled in 1958, in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, which established that the First Amendment

[ad_1] Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) warned on Wednesday that Democratic candidates had a “50-50” chance of winning a majority in the Senate in the upcoming general elections. Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority

[ad_1] President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speak during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Why more voters in the swing state are refusing to tell pollsters their choice for president. The topline result of the final Marquette University Law School poll of Wisconsin

[ad_1] Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., October 21, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) The message to our young girls is clear: Your success matters only if you subscribe to a certain type of progressive feminism. Yesterday, the Girl Scouts congratulated Justice Amy Coney Barrett on her confirmation. Then, they deleted the

[ad_1] I see that a redoubtable trio of law professors—Akhil Amar, Vikram Amar, and Neal Katyal—has published a New York Times op-ed contending that the position that Justice Kavanaugh has expressed (point 1 here) on a state legislature’s authority over voting in presidential elections is “preposterous.” I’d respectfully suggest that the law professors overlook some

[ad_1] ( Zolnierek/Getty Images) Thomas Kirsch is President Trump’s nominee to fill Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. A lifelong Indiana resident, Kirsch is currently the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, where he serves as his district’s chief federal law-enforcement officer. After graduating

[ad_1] A new business prepares to open up following lockdowns in Encinitas, Calif., July 30, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Good and bad news from the Federal Reserve. This week, I’m losing the gun range I’ve relied on for half a decade, the place where I bought my newest pistol and tore through many a paper target.

[ad_1] Former DHS official, Miles Taylor, appears in a Republican Voters Against Trump ad. (Screenshot via YouTube) After the New York Times published the infamous “anonymous” op-ed by a Trump administration official in September 2018, the paper’s then-opinion editor James Dao described in a follow-up why the Times had described the author of the piece

[ad_1] Senator Marco Rubio speaks to reporters following a briefing for members of the U.S. Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday condemned the New York Times‘ decision to attribute the tell-all “anonymous” op-ed to a senior Trump administration official after the author’s identity was

[ad_1] Baik’s parents Cambridge Beauty Supply store looted (Christine Baik) Christine Baik received a security alert on her phone at 7:12 p.m. on Tuesday: someone had broken into her parent’s Philadelphia beauty supply store. She called her parents, who were on their way home. They immediately turned around. “They went back to the store and

[ad_1] Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. As I noted earlier this evening, the Supreme Court (conservative majority and all) is falling down on the job of defending the express constitutional power of state legislatures to write election laws for presidential and congressional elections. That power is limited, of course, by various federal constitutional and

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing at North Shore University Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in Manhasset, N.Y., May 6, 2020. (File photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters) I can’t exactly say it was good for a laugh. But I did virtually attend last night’s Zoom conference (hosted by New York’s 92Y) with

[ad_1] (Lisi Niesner/Reuters) Many cults demand a degree of performative asceticism and quite a few of them find virtue in the simplicity of a more natural, supposedly prelapsarian past, which, luckily for them, they never had to endure. And while many of those preoccupied by climate change, whether out of genuine scientific concern or cynical

[ad_1] U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court just left in place, for the second time so far, a decision by the Pennsylvania supreme court that threw out part of the election law passed by the lawmakers of Pennsylvania, and substituted instead rules written by judges. The Pennsylvania decision,