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...

May 14, 2018 – Students at the University of Michigan, beware. If you say anything politically incorrect or out-of-line with the political and social orthodoxy on your campus, you may get a knock on your dorm room door from the university’s equivalent of the Thought Police, and be forced into a re-education camp. Or...

Jun 22, 2022 – The Federal Election Commission is sowing “chaos.” So say three of the agency’s six commissioners. In a May 13 statement, Republican Commissioners Allen Dickerson, Sean Cooksey, and Trey Trainor noted that “lawsuits have been filed against the Commission for ‘failing to act’ even though the FEC has acted.” The...

May 6, 2009 – There has been a great deal of controversy over the release by the Department of Homeland Security of an analysis by its Extremism and Radicalization Branch about the threats posed by right-wing extremism. One of my sources at DHS recently provided me with a copy of another highly-classified memorandum prepared...

Jul 3, 2009 – With the end of the Bush administration, and the beginning of the most liberal administration in American history, it is a good time to take stock of what happened over the past eight years. Conservatives get very frustrated over the failure of Republican administrations in general to change the...

Jul 19, 2009 – Among the serious problems with Republican administrations is that many of their political appointees in middle management are often put in charge of areas they know nothing about. This makes them dependent on career staff, with all of the bad consequences I have previously described. I know a conservative...

Jul 11, 2009 – The few fellow conservatives I found in the career ranks of the Justice Department were usually people who would only secretly admit their views. At work, they maintain the fiction that they are liberals or apolitical in order to avoid retribution. Those who are openly conservative usually have given...

Sep 15, 2009 – HILLARY THE MOVIE – THE SEQUEL AT THE SUPREME COURT 2009     90 minutes **** (4 stars out of 5) Drama Starring: Theodore B. Olson (for Citizens United) and Floyd Abrams (for Sen. Mitch McConnell) Costarring: Elena Kagan (for the FEC) and Seth P. Waxman (for Sen. John...

May 15, 2013 – Zero tolerance policies have led to elementary students being suspended for playing cops and robbers on the playground.  Now, the federal government is telling colleges that behavior as innocuous as asking a fellow student for a date is sexual harassment and a potential violation of both Title IX, the federal...

Jun 17, 2013 – The Supreme Court has just granted certiorari in Mt. Holly, NJ v. Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens, so it will hear arguments on the case in the fall.  This is the case I previously wrote about that involves the questionable  “disparate impact” legal theory that has gotten Assistant Attorney General...

Jun 15, 2013 – The massive farm bill being considered by the House of Representatives — the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (H.R. 1947) — exemplifies the regulatory excess that characterizes the federal government today and which dominates our agricultural policy. Much of this government control began implementation in the 1930s, led...

Jun 10, 2013 – Racial preferences — i.e., discrimination — are usually touted as a way to help minorities. Often overlooked, however, is the harm they cause these same individuals. Any day now, we will be getting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas on the constitutionality...

Jan 23, 2012 – Politico is reporting that Sen. Rand Paul was detained today by the TSA at the airport in Nashville, Tennessee, after refusing a full body pat-down. He missed his flight and then was rebooked on another flight according to TSA officials. They denied that Paul had been detained but said he...

Feb 9, 2012 – Considering all the Leftist angst over Justice Thomas’ “failure” to recuse himself from the Obamacare litigation because his wife (gasp) publicly criticized the legislation, it’s odd none of the liberals celebrating the Ninth Circuit’s decision on California’s Proposition 8 has mentioned the actual and real ethical issues that case presented...

Mar 28, 2012 – Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s performance before the court has been widely panned as “weak and ineffectual.”  Even liberal commentator Jeffrey Toobin called Verrilli’s arguments “a train wreck for the Obama administration.” But to judge the full measure of just how badly the government did in the last three days,...

Mar 27, 2012 – It was a packed house at the Supreme Court today as lawyers Paul Clement and Michael Carvin tried to persuade the justices that the individual mandate — the centerpiece of ObamaCare — is unconstitutional.  Outside, the loud protests — from both sides of the question — continued.  But inside the...

Mar 26, 2012 – It triggered a law school flashback.  Once again, I was in my least favorite class, federal tax law, listening to a discussion so arcane and bureaucratic that it was hard to stay awake. I speak, of course, of today’s 90 minutes of argument before the Supreme Court.  At issue:...

Mar 26, 2012 – On Monday, ObamaCare will get its first of several days before the Supreme Court. All nine justices (no recusals) will hear six hours of argument spread over three days. Here’s what to expect: Monday, March 26, 10:00 a.m. — The Court will hear 90 minutes of argument on whether...

Mar 22, 2012 – The county has experienced more than its share of election scandal.  Its auditor was convicted for voter fraud in 2005. Its sheriff and county clerk recently pleaded guilty to voter fraud in the May 2010 Democratic primary. Christian Adams has reported on the Lincoln County Commission’s vote to clean...

Mar 21, 2012 – What happened in Sanford, Fla., between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?  No one knows exactly what went down… yet. All we know for sure is that this is an utter tragedy for the family of Trayvon Martin.  They have our heartfelt sympathy for their terrible loss.  Hopefully, state law...

Feb 11, 2014 – I have to echo Christian Adams’s tribute to our friend Ray Hartwell, who we tragically lost last week. Ray was a very successful lawyer at a big Washington, D.C. law firm, and a man who always wanted to do more to help this great nation that he loved. We got to...

Dec 4, 2012 – Along with former Department of Justice lawyer and PJ Media Legal Editor J. Christian Adams, I have written a lot over the past several years about the misbehavior, unprofessionalism, and unethical conduct of lawyers at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. We have also written of the...