Andrew C. McCarthy

Doing the right thing by emphatically ending lawfare might not win the president reelection, but it would improve his chances.

Kristen Clarke lied to Congress under oath, the senators claim.

The Constitution does not empower executive officers to create inferior-officer positions absent an enabling statute.

And a more modest win for Trump.

Can our constitutional checks and balances do anything about it?

There is no way to evaluate the total damage inflicted on Trump’s candidacy by Bragg’s prosecution until we learn what Judge Merchan will do.

The standing claims of the red states challenging DACA are not as formidable as their substantive claims.

If the defendant had been anyone other than Trump, the Justice Department would have zealously guarded its exclusive power to enforce campaign-finance law.

The AG is not withholding Hur’s work. He is withholding his own work.

Remember, this prosecution took six years — and if Weiss and the Biden Justice Department had had their way, it wouldn’t have happened at all.

It’s all about political calculations.

Regardless of what happens to Donald Trump, all of us will live to regret it.

But he and his faux special counsel might yet find a solution.

MAGA Republicans have never come to grips with a stubborn fact: Their affection for Trump is a decidedly minority position in this country.

The president is thoroughly complicit in the prosecutions of his opponent, which he hopes to ride to a second term in the Oval Office.

That Merchan’s decision was predictable doesn’t make it right.

Oh, the irony.

The special counsel’s final report on the Clinton campaign’s manufacturing of the Trump–Russia collusion narrative will be very interesting reading.

The notion of women holding governmental positions is anathema to the Taliban.

For conservatives, saving unborn children should be a matter of principle, not tactical politics.

The president has been resigned for years to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.

For 20 years, some of us have been countering that you can’t defeat the enemy without understanding that they are the enemy, and what they believe.

With the Taliban back in power, he’s not telling the nation what our mission is now.

Biden is running roughshod over the separation of powers.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Biden appointees to charge the governor.

But do the Wolverine Watchmen militia members have a valid claim?

The judge ruled that the students’ right to refuse vaccination is not fundamental.

It would have been misconduct for the Justice Department to politicize the 2020 investigation.

There is really no doubt that Cosby is guilty of being a sexual predator. But guilt was not the only factor for the court.

Leakers keep leaking, and presidents keep trying to stop them.