Activism This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—September 22National Review - Ed Whelan 2005—Explaining his decision to vote against the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice, then-Senator Barack Obama concocts his lawless …
Brett Kavanaugh Kavanaugh and the Crisis of LegitimacyNational Review - Matthew Continetti All the Kavanaugh coverage has been intended to undermine his tenure and lay the predicate for structural reform of the U.S. judiciary. It is …
U.S. Politics Breaking Down the Whistleblower FrenzyNational Review - Andrew C. McCarthy Congress should investigate the whistleblower claim that Trump made a dangerous ‘promise’ to a foreign leader . . . but not because of a statute. The …
Rudy Giuliani There’s an Obvious Problem with Rudy Giuliani’s Spin on UkraineNational Review - David French We still don’t know the details of a whistleblower complaint that is “said” to involve Trump’s dealings with the new Ukrainian government, but we are …
Hunter Biden Trump Didn’t Mention Foreign Aid ‘Quid Pro Quo’ During Call with Ukrainian President: ReportNational Review - Jack Crowe President Trump didn’t mention foreign aid during a recent call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the Wall Street Journal reported …
Morality Embracing Liberty in No Way Means Embracing Moral RelativismNational Review - David French As the think-pieces continue to rain down in the aftermath of my debate earlier this month with Sohrab Ahmari, it’s been discouraging to see the …
Conservative View Making Sense of Israel’s Post-Election Political ChaosNational Review - Zachary Evans As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his would-be dethroners vie to form a governing coalition, let’s break down the possibilities. The vote count …
Abortion Sometimes Infants Are Born Alive after Abortion ProceduresNational Review - Alexandra DeSanctis Our own Mairead McArdle reported earlier today on news out of a hearing in California, where undercover investigators David Daleiden and Sandra …
Abortion Abortionist Testifies at Fetal Parts Hearing: ‘Some of These Fetuses were Live Births’National Review - Mairead McArdle A longtime abortionist took the stand this week in a San Francisco courtroom and testified on behalf of two pro-life undercover investigators, David …
Conservative View A California Court Deals a Blow to Religious Liberty; It’s Time for SCOTUS to ActNational Review - David French The California Court of Appeals rules that a transgender patient can sue a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform a hysterectomy Yesterday, the …
Politics President Trump’s New Wave of Judicial NomineesNational Review - Carrie Severino Today, President Trump announced a new wave of judicial nominees, which includes four new district court picks and Lawrence VanDyke and Patrick …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoSolicitor General Who Is Lawrence VanDyke?National Review - Carrie Severino Lawrence VanDyke is President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from Nevada. VanDyke graduated with highest honors …
Saudi Arabia Who’s In Charge Here? The President Waits for Instructions from Saudi ArabiaNational Review - Michael Brendan Dougherty Because he and the political class won't consult with the American people. The president of the United States can’t say who attacked the oil fields in …
Law School Who is Patrick Bumatay?National Review - Carrie Severino Patrick Bumatay is President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from California. Currently, he is a federal …
Ukraine On Ukraine, Just the Facts, PleaseNational Review - Michael Brendan Dougherty Just want to draw more attention to Jim Geraghty’s great work in this morning’s Jolt on Donald Trump, Hunter Biden and Ukraine. Geraghty is doing the …
Federalism Federalism and the California WaiverNational Review - Ramesh Ponnuru There has been a fair amount of not–especially–thoughtful commentary about the supposed conflict between conservatives’ support for federalism and …
Sanctions Trump Announces ‘Highest Level’ of New Sanctions on Iranian National BankNational Review - Mairead McArdle President Trump announced Friday that his administration has placed top-level sanctions on Iran’s national bank. “We have just sanctioned the Iranian …
Bill de Blasio NYPD Union Denounces de Blasio for Abandoning NYC During Failed Presidential BidNational Review - Zachary Evans The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (P.B.A.), the city’s largest police union, put out a statement Friday on Twitter …
Conservative View Trump’s Labor Board Is Undoing Everything Obama’s DidNational Review - Robert VerBruggen And labor law will keep ping-ponging this way until Congress fixes it. Andrew Strom, a union lawyer who contributes to the invaluable On Labor blog, is …
Arizona Supreme Court ‘Gay Rights Are Under Siege in This Country’?!?National Review - Ed Whelan Wow. How stupid, or ideology-blinded, does Jeffrey Toobin take his New Yorker readers to be? In a piece titled “The Right Wing’s War on the L.G.B.T.Q. …
Vaping The Ridiculous Anti-Vaping CrusadeNational Review - Rich Lowry There’s little evidence that vaping, as a general matter, is harmful. And compared to smoking, it’s downright healthy. Never before has a boon to …
Hunter Biden Trump’s Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Is Probably About Hunter Biden’s Dealings in UkraineNational Review - Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: Everything you need to know about the intelligence official’s whistle-blower complaint against President Trump, …
Brett Kavanaugh Kavanaugh Book Charges Him with Being a ‘Known Bro’National Review - Kyle Smith The campaign against Brett Kavanaugh can be summarized in one word. He is or was a bro. A bro is a highly masculine, at times loutish jock, very …
Criminology What We’ve Been ReadingNational Review - George Leef Today’s Martin Center article is a compilation of short pieces by staff members on interesting things we have been reading. Corner readers will …
News Trump Administration may Divert Additional Pentagon Funds for Border WallNational Review - Zachary Evans Senior Trump Administration officials are considering a plan to divert additional billions of dollars in military funds to pay for upcoming …
Al Sharpton House Hearing Devolves into Shouting Match as Sharpton Questioned about Past StatementsNational Review - Zachary Evans Sparks flew at a House Judiciary Committee on policing last Thursday as Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Flo.) questioned witness Al Sharpton regarding …
News DHS Backs Off Plan to Halt Medical Deportation ReliefNational Review - Mairead McArdle The Trump administration on Thursday formally canceled plans to deport migrants with serious medical conditions, including critically ill children, …
Phyllis Newman A Handful of Quick OnesNational Review - Jay Nordlinger The headline reads, “Trump promotes false smear of Rep. Ilhan Omar.” (Article here.) Smears are false, right? No need for the “false.” What did Trump …
News Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Involves Ukraine and a ‘Promise’ to Foreign LeaderNational Review - Zachary Evans A whistleblower complaint against President Trump, the existence of which was revealed last week, involves the Ukraine and a commitment Trump made to …
