Andrew C. McCarthy

The latest chapter provides more hurdles for both Trump’s top-down and bottom-up efforts to bring the federal bureaucracy to heel.

Yes, President Trump can fire, and has fired, Hampton Dellinger.

The big argument is only just beginning.

This is an important test case for the administration.

These programs have to be undone the same way they were created.

A small but important victory for the president.

Yes, Ukraine’s president performed incompetently, but he is not the reason for Friday’s debacle.

She got the first big thing right: protecting our technology industry and all Americans from the Luddite demands of Britain’s Labour government.

Is this righteous indignation or shrewd choreography?

Psst — there is no administrator of DOGE. There is Elon Musk.

Yet by making clear that Musk’s power is limited, it could help DOGE in court.

The conflict of interest of its members could not be any clearer.

Judge Dale Ho has adopted the Michael Flynn model in navigating this case. I am wary.

This was a qualified victory for Trump, to say the least.

What authority, if any, does the court have to force the Justice Department’s hand?

At issue is Trump’s firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

The Adams case is not the only one that will bring the foolishness of this directive into sharp relief.

So much for getting politics out of law enforcement.

Despite the tone of media coverage, all these judges have done, for now, is raise important questions.

He apparently believes that the Gaza issue can be solved while ignoring the dominant fact on the ground.

He is taking steps to block J6 defendants from state employment.

The Constitution vs. the administrative state.

The move signals an overdue rebalancing of government.

The always political Merrick Garland outsmarted himself, so Judiciary Committee Democrats lack the ammo needed to challenge the FBI nominee’s appointment.

The ostensible breakthrough in Chinese AI may be more a function of mundane theft than techno-wizardry. But we should get the facts.

It would probably take a constitutional amendment — or, at a minimum, congressional legislation.

The outgoing Biden-Harris administration and its AG continue to play a political game with capital punishment.

And the media were ready to amplify the proclamation that Trump ‘would have been convicted.

This is an outrageous maneuver by a federal prosecutor.

Whether the bureau designates an Islamist attack “terrorism” depends on a dubious judgment that it was inspired by “false” Islamic teaching.