Andrew C. McCarthy

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?

The laws of war do not outlaw victory, actually.

Any federal prosecution should await the conclusion of criminal proceedings at the state level.

Malevolent progressive prosecutors are a threat to the rights of ordinary Americans, too.

The extent of Chinese government infiltration of our governing system is appalling.

Yet there is no law-enforcement reason why Trump should be sentenced on this date.

Because there is no such rule, formally.

There is no way the case is getting very far before Election Day.

The Jewish state cannot wait to be attacked if its intelligence services detect imminent Hezbollah strikes.

David Weiss’s special-counsel appointment has always been a charade, but that doesn’t make it illegal or unconstitutional.

Lawmakers must get answers about what nuclear-weaponization activities Iran has engaged in — and what the Biden–Harris administration is doing about it.

It could not be more obvious what the judge should do here.

Here is what the New York Times doesn’t tell you.

The Biden-Harris administration and the media speak of fears of a ‘regional war.’ That war is already on. The question is how much worse it might get.

There’s a strong chance the jihadists die in prison no matter how the government proceeds with their cases.

David Weiss did what he has done for most of six years of running the Biden investigation: nothing.

Despite the best efforts of the judge and the prosecutor, there is no practical possibility of a Trump election-interference trial prior to Election Day.

What Americans have wanted is justice. That will be denied.

The unexpected spotlight on the Manhattan case had the effect of discrediting the entire enterprise in the public mind.

Look to the self-defeating machinations of Merrick Garland and Jack Smith.