The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other.” Despite that declaration, North Carolinians are increasingly…
As reported at The Carolina Journal, North Carolina’s legislative leaders filed petitions last week asking the N.C. Supreme Court to rehear two cases in which the court’s outgoing Democratic majority ruled against Republican legislators…
That’s the headline of a recent WRAL report. The report continues: A Home Depot employee who was in the hospital for weeks after being shoved down by a man stealing merchandise has…
(Note: This piece was originally posted in 2018. I’m reposting it because much of what I said then remains relevant and important today.) Just over one hundred years ago—on November…
On October 31, I listened to five hours of oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court in SFFA v. UNC and SFFA v Harvard. Since I doubt many readers had the patience to…
Ever since the calls to “defund the police” began in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, I’ve been making the case for increased police spending so that we can…
The Washington Free Beacon reported this week that: The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association on Wednesday announced its endorsement of Republican Senate nominee Ted Budd. The decision comes as a rebuff…
Writing at City Jounal, John D. Sailer reports: Last month, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees passed a resolution reaffirming the Chicago Principles on free expression and adopting the Kalven…
The recent recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin seems like a good occasion to revisit what I wrote about Boudin just after he was elected in 2019. In Leftist…
Street violence has claimed the lives of far too many innocent Black children, and the current spike in violent crime makes the problem worse. Deploying more police officers to act…
The current spike in homicides and other violent crime has created an urgent need for more and better policing. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of the anti-police hysteria that swept the…
Yesterday, Politico published a draft opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and today the court confirmed that the leaked document is genuine. The issue…