Andrew C. McCarthy

If our enemies are going to keep warring with each other, let them.

My hope is that common sense prevails.

The Constitution’s pardon power is a vestige of a bygone time.

It’s not Kash Patel’s schtick that puts them in jeopardy. It’s that they took their shot at Trump, missed, and now have to worry about the oldest rule in politics.

The president could try to head off a new investigation of influence-peddling by granting participants the same sort of expansive pardon he gave Hunter.

Winning was his retribution.

A judge has granted Jack Smith’s request to dismiss the 2020 election-interference case against Trump.

Bondi is going to be confirmed. She is going to be the attorney general. That’s when her real challenges start.

Before diving into another fiasco reminiscent of the Matt Gaetz nomination, he and his transition team need to think this through carefully.

Two months before inauguration, the president-elect likely prefers a suspension over an appeal.

Is the president-elect being played?

Justice Department prosecutors are mere delegates, permitted to exercise the president’s power at the president’s pleasure.

He has a good chance of getting the case reversed on appeal — but he can’t appeal until after Judge Merchan sentences him.

What will Judge Merchan do this week?

The attacks in Amsterdam were blood-boiling but not surprising.

Hopefully, the feds’ example will influence the progressive Democratic state prosecutors to stand down.

Biden should pardon Trump, as he (inevitably) pardons his son.

While I maintain faith in our system, there are danger signs.

Would Democrats use Jack Smith’s case as a trigger for invoking the insurrection disqualification at a joint session of Congress?

A Muslim illegal immigrant tried to kill an American Jew on the streets of the Windy City — and the government is caught between progressive pieties and justice.

What could happen with the pending state cases against Trump if he wins.

What happens to the cases against Trump if he retakes the White House?

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is plowing forward with a case that never should have been charged.

When asked about meetings with Democratic prosecutors and politicians during a House Judiciary Committee deposition, Wade failed to recall the details.

She needs to make the race a referendum on Trump, not the Trump administration.

The lawsuit against Governor Youngkin’s voter-roll cleanup is shameful.

Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade’s closed-door House testimony is likely to come to nothing much of note.

By attempting to renege on the deals, the administration may have taken the death penalty off the table for some of the plotters.

This is not a legal exercise, it’s a political one.

What happened to all the ‘war crimes’ and ‘terrorism’ dudgeon?