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The Democrats' "Flight 93" Nomination

Understanding where the burden of proof really rests. → Read More

If You Build It, Presidents Will Come

Adam J. White on what happens when the commander in chief takes the mound. → Read More

Rage at the End of Justice Kennedy's Camelot

If John F. Kennedy’s presidency was, for Democrats, a kind of three-year “Camelot,” then Anthony M. Kennedy’s three-decade tenure on the Supreme Court was also, for Democrats, a kind of judicial Camelot. A place where progressive rights could be created and protected, safe from the people outside the castle. → Read More

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The Supreme Court Can Handle a Vacancy for a Long Time--Just as It's Done Before

As debate continues about the president's eventual nomination to the Supreme Court — or, more specifically, as the President's proponents inside and outside the Senate grind their teeth over the fact that the Constitution doesn't actually require the Senate to spring into action when the President announces which liberal judicial activist he wants to appoint as Justice Scalia's replacement — the… → Read More

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Antonin Scalia, Reform Conservative

In the aftermath of Justice Scalia's untimely passing, the outpouring of remembrances describe his astonishing legal career: a Supreme Court justice, of course, and before that a D.C. Circuit judge, a University of Chicago law professor, and chief of the Ford Administration's Office of Legal Counsel. But to focus only on Scalia's legal career risks overlooking a crucial aspect of his life and… → Read More

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The American Constitutionalist

A few days before Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, I stumbled upon a monograph published in 1979 by the American Enterprise Institute, a debate titled A Constitutional Convention: How Well Would It Work? The subject matter, though interesting, paled in comparison to the names of the participants, some of the greatest constitutional thinkers of their generation: Paul Bator, a respected scholar… → Read More

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The Constitution Does Not Require the Senate to Vote on a Nomination

Senator Schumer appeared Sunday on ABC's This Week and responded to suggestions that the Senate might not confirm the lame-duck President's nomination to replace the late Justice Scalia: show me the clause [in the Constitution] that says president's only president for three years. True, Presidents serve four-year terms. But here's a question for Senator Schumer: Can you show me the clause that… → Read More

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Democrats Welcome War Czar, Even After Denouncing Bush's Czar

Donald Rumsfeld once said that you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. He could have said the same for Presidents—we go to war with the president we have, not the president we might want or wish to have. But Senate Democrats have a new wish: that President Obama appoint a new czar responsible for the nation's war with ISIS. Senator Harry… → Read More

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