Jul 16, 2024 – Like all of America, I was shocked to hear about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump—although, unfortunately, not surprised. Not since George W. Bush have we seen such hateful, vicious rhetoric aimed at a Republican candidate: “an existential threat to democracy,” “a dictator,” “a fascist,” and a modern...

Aug 15, 2023 – To graduate from the 8th-ranked University of Virginia School of Law these days, you have to demonstrate an “understanding” of “bias/racism/cross-cultural dependency.” Granted, the school’s website doesn’t explain what that means, but the course catalog does indicate which offerings would satisfy that politically correct requirement. Clearly, the left’s Woke...

Feb 19, 2015 – There’s still a lot of litigating ahead for the immigration lawsuit brought by 26 states against the Obama administration.  But whatever the end result, Judge Andrew Hanen ought to be given the Will Rogers Award for his straightforward, forthright, plain-speaking analysis of what the president has really done with his...

Mar 1, 2017 – The White House seems poised to issue a revised executive order restricting visas from seven terrorist havens until sufficient vetting procedures are in place. Yet one related issue has not been fully explored: The way the arguments over the original order may have been sabotaged in the Ninth Circuit Court...

Apr 13, 2017 – During his trip to the southern border, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it clear that he will carry out the mandate he was given by President Donald Trump: to vigorously enforce our immigration laws, and go after the human smugglers and traffickers who work for the Mexican cartels that have...

Oct 19, 2023 – This is the last article of a 10-part series that J. Christian Adams and I started over six months ago to expose the radical curricula of the top 10 law schools as rated by U.S. News & World Report last year. Christian covered the top-ranked school, Yale, then Chicago, Harvard, NYU, and...

May 17, 2023 – The unclassified report released by Special Counsel John H. Durham on the misbehavior of the FBI in the Crossfire Hurricane operation – the investigation into the Trump-Russia collusion hoax – confirms that the FBI had no basis for even opening an investigation.  Agency personnel disregarded the careful protocols that...

Jun 15, 2023 – You probably don’t realize it, but over 150 years after the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, we still have “Badges and Incidents of Slavery” in our country, and we need a “Radical Vision for a Third Reconstruction.” At least, that is what you would be learning as a...

Sep 27, 2011 – Sources inside the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department tell me that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Loretta King, the controversial career lawyer who ordered the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, has announced that she is resigning. King is infamous within the Division for her...

Sep 19, 2011 – Today represents the eleventh installment of PJMedia’s expose into the heavily politicized hiring practices of the Civil Rights Division in the Obama Justice Department. The series has exposed the obvious liberal litmus test applied to the hiring of all new career attorneys since Eric Holder and liberal appointees such as...

May 30, 2012 – Readers of PJ Media may have noticed I have not published much lately at the website. That is because my mother, Traudel von Spakovsky, unexpectedly passed away recently just short of her 84th birthday. This has been pretty tough for my family — we are close-knit, which is not unusual...

Jun 13, 2012 – A sharp reader of PJ Media sent in a copy of a letter he received from Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) about voter ID laws.  Lewis was responding to a letter from the reader, in which he had pointed out that—as a naturalized U.S. citizen—he had to provide a lot of...

Jun 28, 2012 – What a depressing day for America: Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal justices on the Supreme Court as the fifth and pivotal vote that allowed most of Obamacare to survive. While much of the speculation in the academic and media world was about Justice Anthony Kennedy as the...

Jun 21, 2012 – It was standing room only at the American Enterprise Institute last Friday.  The draw? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who gave a stirring defense of political free speech, as highlighted in this hour-long video of the speech at C-SPAN.  This cornerstone of American democracy has been under continuing attack...

Jun 20, 2012 – No one who has watched President Obama’s descent into an imperial presidency should be surprised by his latest executive fiat that will provide amnesty and work permits for almost one million illegal aliens, an utter reversal of federal immigration law. After all, this complements his Justice Department’s actions in...

Jun 24, 2011 – Thanks to Operation Fast and Furious, the incompetence and ineptitude that has infected the Holder Justice Department is becoming more obvious all the time. For department prosecutors (and senior ATF personnel) to approve the sale of firearms to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers was a deadly misstep. It...

Jul 8, 2011 – A three-judge panel of the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today unanimously reinstated a challenge by residents of Kinston, N.C., claiming that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. They sued after the Justice Department objected to a referendum that changed its city...

Jul 6, 2011 – In a blockbuster development in the Operation Fast & Furious gun-running scandal, Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson secretly testified before House and Senate investigators on July 4 with his own personal lawyer present, former United States Attorney Richard Cullen, without the knowledge of the ATF or the Department of Justice....

Jun 30, 2011 – It was standing room only at this morning’s Federal Election Commission hearing. The reason for the big box office: the query from Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert about setting up a “superPAC.” Colbert’s lawyers had requested an advisory opinion from the FEC on whether Colbert’s proposal was legal under applicable...

Jul 14, 2011 – Former President Bill Clinton’s claim that common sense election reforms like voter ID are an attempt to bring back Jim Crow is historically preposterous and an outrageous libel. An overwhelming majority of Americans support voter ID and that support runs across all racial and ethnic lines. Such vitriolic...

Feb 7, 2011 – The silence of liberals is sometimes just as revealing as what they say. What would be the reaction if protesters at a Tea Party rally were heard saying the following about Attorney General Eric Holder? • He should be impeached and “put… back in the fields.” • We should...

Feb 4, 2011 – President Obama’s nomination of James Graves to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday in a voice vote. Sources tell me that both Republican senators from Mississippi support his nomination. This is quite ironic, given Graves’ apparent racial double-standards (as I outlined in...

Feb 3, 2011 – In a further demonstration of the Obama administration’s hypocrisy on racial policy, the president recently renominated James E. Graves for a federal judgeship. Those who have followed the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal at the Holder Justice Department know that his administration’s political...

Feb 15, 2011 – For a while, at least, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was investigating the Justice Department’s race-based decision to dismiss the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case — a case DOJ had effectively won. But now President Obama and Harry Reid have used their appointment powers to stop the investigation....

Feb 24, 2011 – On President Obama’s decision to violate his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” and defend DOMA, I would refer the readers of The Tatler to the opinion of Benjamin Civiletti, United State Attorney General for the final two years of the Carter administration. In...