Thomas Wheatley
The Hill
Washington, United States
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My mom taught me to choose life — it was her greatest gift
My mother demonstrated that life can be painfully hard work and personal sacrifice that is both joyful and frustrating, sometimes simultaneously. → Read More
Virginia should reject the ERA
The obvious point of the ERA was to rectify an illicit disparity between men and women by advancing the civil rights of women and to enshrine the principle of legal equality between the two sexes in our highest form of law. → Read More
A Virginia teacher is fighting for his religious freedom. Good for him.
A school’s decision posed a foreboding and dark augury for the First Amendment. → Read More
Supreme Court saves WWI cross but muddies the Establishment Clause waters
If Establishment Clause law was confusing before, it is now downright baffling. → Read More
Banish hatred ... but Virginia's paramilitary prohibition is unconstitutional
The attorney general is trying to build support for a bill to ban hate-spewing white supremacists and other extremists from assembling. → Read More
Standing against tyrants remains our burden, a century after ‘Great War'
Our war dead said goodbye, without knowing it, for the last time — but they died to protect what is good in the world. → Read More
Christine Fair is so angry
Yet another sign of cognitive decline in higher education. → Read More
The juvenile case behind the effort to revoke the Trump hotel’s liquor license
It's not a clever way to stick it to the president. It’s a petty abuse of the law. → Read More
In cakeshop case, Justice Kennedy takes left-wing bigotry to task
"The Court flipped the script entirely on what bigotry looks like in America laying bare the seething hatred many on the left have for the free exercise of religion..." → Read More
Remembering a major victory for free speech, 40 years later
"After surviving decades of baseless fear-mongering from campaign finance reform advocates, Bellotti’s central holding has cured into a treasured piece of free speech law." → Read More
Maryland flunks freedom of speech
What are its stringent campaign contribution limits delivering? → Read More
Supreme Court can reinforce free speech with Rod Blagojevich case
The justices have a chance to provide clarity for those who contribute to political causes in America. → Read More
Illinois town’s 'assault weapon' ban is unconstitutional fear-mongering
Call it a chronic refusal to learn, a heaping pile of ignorance, or perhaps a compulsive preference for show over substance. Actual safety doesn’t matter, what matters more is a “sense of safety”. → Read More
The Sinclair Debacle Is a Big, Juicy Nothingburger
Sinclair's message shouldn't be condemned, but celebrated for its perceptiveness. → Read More
Did you enjoy ‘Fire and Fury’? Thank Citizens United for it
If you like Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” be thankful for the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. → Read More
Did you enjoy 'Fire and Fury'? You can thank Citizens United for it
The government should respect history and the law enough to know banning books never ends well. → Read More
West Virginians should reject a misguided call for less political speech
More speech, not less, is how a democracy survives. → Read More
President Trump And The Issue Of Free Speech
Donald Trump is hardly the first public official to want to get back at his critics using libel laws. If he sues the publisher of “Fire and Fury,” the book on his presidency, he’ll likely fail. → Read More
President Trump should nominate Trey Gowdy for the 4th Circuit
Gowdy could bring this court back to Earth. → Read More
D.C.’s Fair Elections Act would give more power to the already powerful
The system is prone to abuse and not worth the money. → Read More