Terry Eastland
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Obama Rebuked By One of His Own
Last month a federal district judge in Wyoming invalidated an Interior Department rule setting stricter standards for hydraulic fracturing (fracking, in commin parlance) on public lands. The decision dealt a blow to the Obama administration's environmental agenda, and news coverage focused on that. But the decision was also notable for how the judge in the case, Stephen Skavdahl, saw the… → Read More
The Real Garland?
President Obama evidently thinks he has a nominee who is confirmable by a Republican Senate that soon after Antonin Scalia's death made clear its intention to block anyone the president might nominate and thus let the voters decide in November who instead should select Scalia's replacement. Obama is in a difficult position. He has no constitutional authority to force the Senate to quit its… → Read More
Grassley V. Obama
Senator Charles Grassley has responded to President Obama's post last week on SCOTUS blog titled A Responsibility I Take Seriously. Which responsibility might that be? The power to appoint judges to the Supreme Court, said the president. The reader who makes it through the seven-paragraph post will notice, as Grassley did, that the President uses the verb appoint or a word derived from it no… → Read More
The Minister and the Justice
In 1998, Justice Antonin Scalia attended the funeral service for Justice Lewis Powell at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. At the luncheon afterwards Scalia looked for the church's pastor, the Rev. James Goodloe. Unable to find him, Scalia wrote Goodloe a letter telling him how reverent and inspiring I found the service. Scalia said this from the perspective of one who in… → Read More
The Mirth of Scalia
As political Washington wonders who will (sooner or later) replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died during his sleep a week ago, the more pressing question really is who will replace him in the mirth department. Scalia was that good at humor, and many of his most memorable quips came from the bench during oral argument. Writing at SCOTUSBlog, Mark Walsh links to several of Scalia’s jokes and… → Read More
Just Say No
President Obama says he soon will nominate someone to fill the vacancy opened by the unexpected death of Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell says his chamber will block any nominee the president sends up. If the Senate succeeds in that effort during what is, of course, a presidential election year, with Barack Obama ineligible (thanks to the… → Read More
Scalia's Nomination
Soon after Ed Meese was sworn in as attorney general in early 1985, he organized a group within the Justice Department whose purpose was to advise him, and ultimately President Reagan, on who would be the best candidates to select for the Supreme Court, in the event seats opened. There were about 20 of us, and we looked at roughly 20 prospects, most of them federal judges. We reviewed their… → Read More
The 'Good Judge'
First published November 13, 2006, and re-published today as news breaks of Antonin Scalia's passing: My only agenda is to be a good judge. --Antonin Scalia, in his 1986Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing During this time of conservative angst, of worry about what conservatism stands for and means, why not consider the contribution to the country of someone who is not a politician… → Read More
Roadblock for the EPA
The Supreme Court has granted a stay of a final rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants fueled by fossil sources. It has the dull title, Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, and is known more simply as the Clean Power Plan. Twenty-nine states and… → Read More
Roberts: Party Fights Hurt Supreme Court
From the Washington Post: Chief Justice John Roberts is worried about how the public sees the Supreme Court. In a recent speech celebrating Law Day at New England Law-Boston, Roberts discussed (among other things) the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominees, namely how it has evolved—or been degraded—such that the three most recent ones—Samuel Alito, selected by President Bush, and… → Read More
The Religion of Trump
The Constitution provides that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. But, as Gary Scott Smith of Grove City College writes in his new book, Religion in the Oval Office, Throughout American history many citizens have viewed strong faith as an asset, if not a requirement, for politicians, especially presidents. The… → Read More
An Unlikely Crusade
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a rookie who ranks 99th in seniority, gave his maiden speech on the Senate floor in November. Normally, senators use such speeches to discuss why this or that legislation is needed. Sasse, a former college president and a historian by training (Yale Ph.D.) who has taught public policy (at the University of Texas), didn’t do that. Instead, he addressed the… → Read More
Prosecuting Speech?
The day after the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, Attorney General Loretta Lynch attended a dinner in Washington held by the Muslim Advocates, a Muslim-rights organization. Lynch made no direct mention of the attacks but addressed the Justice Department's responsibilities in light of what she called a very disturbing rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States since the terrorist… → Read More
Who Gets In, Who Doesn’t?
Next month the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, one of the most important cases this term. In 2008 Fisher, a white high school senior in Texas, applied for admission to the university and was turned down. She sued the school, claiming that its admissions procedures discriminated against her on the basis of race in violation of the Fourteenth… → Read More
Reading Carson
Ben Carson remains in the presidential race notwithstanding the conventional wisdom that the retired neurosurgeon and first-time-candidate-for-any-office wouldn’t last this long. Indeed, the most recent polls show Carson leading Donald Trump in Iowa, which kicks off the presidential primary season with its caucuses on February 1. → Read More
Reading Carson
Ben Carson remains in the presidential race notwithstanding the conventional wisdom that the retired neurosurgeon and first-time-candidate-for-any-office wouldn’t last this long. Indeed, the most recent polls show Carson leading Donald Trump in Iowa, which kicks off the presidential primary season with its caucuses on February 1. → Read More
Coercive Federalism
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Coercive Federalism
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Obama's Executive Authority Questioned at Democratic Debate
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Obama's Executive Authority Questioned at Democratic Debate
Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about 2016 Elections, Barack Obama, debate, Democrats, Executive, Jim Webb and Power from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition. → Read More