Mar 3, 2011 – The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty as a constitutionally-protected punishment. It’s supported by two-thirds of the American public, according to Gallup. But that hasn’t stopped the European Union from funding death penalty opponents in the United States, to the tune of $3.6 million in 2009...

Mar 16, 2011 – The Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department has done it again. Under the supervision of scandal-plagued Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, the Division has blocked a much-needed reform of a local school board in Fairfield County, S.C. It’s the latest example of what happens when you put a...

May 29, 2012 – A while back, Christian Adams, PJ’s Legal Editor and former Justice Department lawyer, highlighted the Facebook page of a Justice Department senior civil rights analyst, Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi, who labeled Mississippi as “disgusting and shameful.”  This was the same employee who admitted committing perjury and leaking confidential legal opinions and...

Mar 29, 2023 – On March 20, my friend and former Justice Department colleague J. Christian Adams published the first article in our series of exposés, “Do They Teach Law?” We examine what’s actually being taught at the top 10 law schools, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. The Yale University...

Apr 26, 2023 – Note: This is the fourth in a 10-part series at PJ Media examining what our nation’s top 10 law schools – according to U.S. News and World Report – are teaching. J. Christian Adams and I are undertaking a deep dive into what is being taught in these law schools....

Sep 8, 2014 – It’s not enough that the Justice Department is investigating the shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, MO police officer. Now it’s opening up a “pattern and practice” investigation of the entire Ferguson police force. The big question: Is this Justice Department capable of conducting a fair and impartial investigation?...

Jul 29, 2015 – “The mission of this book, as in my past books, is to persuade as many fellow citizens as possible, through scholarship, facts, and ideas, to avert a looming tragedy — not a Greek Tragedy of the theater and mind, but a real and devastating American tragedy, the loss of the...

Nov 6, 2014 – Many pundits and campaign consultants are no doubt analyzing the election results across the country to try to decipher what lessons the Republican wave holds for candidates planning to run in 2016. But there are four easily seen lessons that both of the major political parties should take to heart:...

Feb 6, 2026 – Federal District Court Judge Ana Reyes of the District of Columbia recently issued an injunction telling Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that she cannot end “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) for Haitians who are in the U.S.  Of course, Reyes had to blatantly violate federal law to do it because she has...

Mar 6, 2026 – Those attracted to the Progressive Casualty Insurance Company because of its admittedly funny commercials should think twice about buying their car insurance from the company, which apparently thinks racial discrimination is progressive. And the refusal of two judges on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Andre Mathis (a Joe Biden...

Feb 21, 2026 – Olympic skier Eileen Gu is having quite a moment, although it is a shameful one over which she apparently has no remorse and no concern. The February issue of Time magazine featured her on its cover. Then, she won silver in freestyle skiing slopestyle in Milan and is favored to also...

Apr 28, 2026 – If you thought the circus at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights couldn’t get more absurd, the Commission’s April 24 business meeting proved otherwise, with Democrats claiming that a document from the White House signed by President Donald Trump was a possible forgery. All in order to defy the president, defy...

May 21, 2026 – "Shocking.”“Deflating.”“Sickening.”“It’s not good news.” If someone heard the reactions of House Democratic lawmakers to the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision on the Commonwealth’s recent partisan gerrymandering scheme, they might be forgiven for assuming the ruling posed some kind of existential threat to the rule of law in the Commonwealth. In a letter...

Aug 26, 2026 – In administratively staying the meritless injunction issued by Massachusetts District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, while the underlying case is being litigated, a majority of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court applied both its long-established rule on standing and common-sense rationality to President Donald Trump’s March executive...

Jun 28, 2026 – You really have to hand it to Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. When it comes to trying to stop lawful immigration enforcement, they are willing to twist the law and themselves like pretzels to please the open-borders crowd.  There really is no other way...

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...