Andrew C. McCarthy

An appeals court has found a district judge erred in intervening in the case of Mahmoud Khalil.

We can do a lot to further hollow out the regime’s capacity to project power, but only the Iranian people can push it over.

The objective is likely to identify leakers with an eye toward firing them.

The president is only hurting himself.

Whether by purchase or conquest, adding territory to the United States requires congressional approval.

This is no case for a judge who could be pushing 94 by the time a jury is selected.

It seems like there isn’t one.

As a matter of American law, the ex-dictator hasn’t a leg to stand on.

Muslim jihadists’ actions are consistent with centuries-old sharia law.

Common sense tells us that narcotic drugs are different from WMD. As one would expect, these differences are reflected in law.

The immunity that public officials need to do their jobs is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for their nonofficial acts.

As is often the case, there is a kernel of a shade of truth in the president’s hyperbolic talk on social media.

If letting China buy precious tech is detrimental to U.S. interests, that threat is not mitigated by allowing the Treasury to grab a quarter of the income.

This seems to have been epic government incompetence.

The incantations of the word are intended to mislead the public into assuming the cartels’ terror ‘designation’ has solid legal footing.

The president of the United States has no unilateral authority to use military force in the absence of a legitimate armed conflict.

Bondi should try to persuade her headstrong boss that enough is enough.

Sort of.

Trump and Bondi’s finagling with the appointment process has gotten them nowhere.

Incorporating the Pentagon into the campaign against political enemies — even those who make a craven video — raises the abuse of executive power to a new level.

Comey’s pending motions could be key.

Why did the DOJ create a second indictment document that makes it look like no charge was rejected?

How much does it matter?

Some errors may require dismissal of the charges. Some are being exaggerated.

The Justice Department is in the business of investigating crime, not the business of conducting political opposition research.

The initial appointment of the prosecutor in these cases was untenable — and Bondi’s fix doesn’t work.

The justice played a bad hand about as well as it could be played.

This week produced one of the most bizarre submissions to a court that I’ve seen.

When the rule of law erodes, so does liberty.

The power has become synonymous with corruption.