Liberty
Reading List for the New Year
Quin Hillyer offers the Washington Examiner suggestions for enlightening reading in the new year. If you are like me, you have more books on the shelves than you can ever…
Edward Whelan
American lawyer
Research Brief
Elections & Public Integrity
A Supreme Court Justice Seeks to Legalize — Then Require — Racial Discrimination
Contrary to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's contention, the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act protect the voting rights of people of all races. People of all races can be…
Liberty
New Justice Offers Confusing View of 14th Amendment
Ed Whelan writes at National Review Online about the newest U.S. Supreme Court justice’s unusual take on a kye constitutional provision. Justice Jackson capped her very long questioning of Alabama…
Law & Public Safety
“Academics say Biden SCOTUS nominee should recuse herself in Harvard admissions case”
That’s the title of a recent piece at the College Fix. The author, Christian Schneider, goes on to say: A number of legal experts within academia have told The College Fix that Judge…
Liberty
Choosing Supreme Court Justices on Merits Labeled Racist
Rich Lowry of National Review Online ponders one of the most disappointing aspects of the current debate over U.S. Supreme Court justices. The early debate over Stephen Breyer’s replacement has…
Law & Public Safety
Barrett could extend Scalia’s legacy
Ed Whelan writes for National Review Online about the potential long-term impact of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, if she wins confirmation to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “His…
Law & Public Safety
Scalia’s rhetorical skills remembered
Mona Charen devotes a National Review Online column to a new collection of speeches from the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Antonin Scalia was not just a great…
Law & Public Safety
Gorsuch is Worthy Heir to Scalia’s Legacy
President Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court, and I’m absolutely delighted. Judge Gorsuch is a fourth-generation Coloradan whose academic and early professional…
Law & Public Safety
Gorsuch as successor to Scalia
Ed Whelan explains at National Review Online why Judge Neil Gorsuch would be such a worthy successor of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch is a brilliant…
Law & Public Safety
Taking the Obama administration’s claims to their logical conclusions
Ed Whelan writes at National Review Online that the Obama administration’s pursuit of transgender activism has produced a “legal absurdity.” In 1972, Congress enacted the federal law known as Title…
Law & Public Safety
Beware progressive praise for John Roberts
Garrett Snedeker, assistant director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding, explains to readers of The Federalist why they should be concerned about recent praise…
Liberty
Religious Freedom 3, HHS Mandate Zip
The fight for religious freedom continues against the outrageous ObamaCare mandate that forces believers to violate their religious beliefs. From Ed Whelan writing at nationalreview.com: In a carefully reasoned opinion issued today,…