Dan McLaughlin

The Supreme Court is not likely to apply deference to the president in the tariffs case and is likelier to closely scrutinize what powers were delegated.

As with many dangerous things, the dose makes the poison.

We promise to give you analysis that starts with what the law is — not ‘No Kings’ hysteria.

Trump’s many and well-known vices should not leave us unable to see that the man also has his virtues.

In a major judicial election in the Keystone State, Democrats are more focused than Republicans.

A newly available book makes the case that scientific advances have undermined the basis for denying the existence of God.

Candidates for office should be able to sue in advance to find out when the election is.

Democrats failed utterly in their abuse of the law and now reap the consequences, while Trump imitates their failures, expecting a different result.

The justice offers her take on writing, advocacy, experience, judicial independence, security threats, amicus briefs, and what she’d ask Justice Scalia.

Gun control as a solution to spectacular public murders doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Kimmel’s return suggests that he has learned nothing and will do it again.

In reality, Democrats are never going to lift a finger to stop an antisemitic communist from becoming the face of their party.

Telling us that it doesn’t matter when one side commits violence warps public policy, news coverage, and more.

Jill Lepore refutes her own argument against originalism.

The killing of Charlie Kirk will be a radicalizing moment but should not alter our commitment to the American Way.

The Trump administration must cross a minefield without a misstep in order to uphold its tariffs.

The stars are aligned against a unified front to stop a radical takeover of America’s greatest city.

A year of peril lies ahead for the federal courts.

Elon Musk’s America Party is the latest third-party dream to die.

We never did encounter the legendary rudeness and scorn of Parisians, one of many pleasant surprises and unexpected insights.

The legal landscape in deciding when presidents can fire Fed governors is surprisingly unsettled.

The virtues of the ancient Greeks are still relevant to America’s national game.

The latest decision in the Planned Parenthood case is a sloppy stew of logical fallacies.

There are multiple ways in which the Supreme Court could go even bigger against court-ordered racial gerrymanders by delaying the Louisiana case until the fall.

A conservative American foreign policy is not one based on illusions or reflexive hostility to the use of power.

Sean Davis invented a false history of my writings in order to smear me.

Over-the-top rhetoric from Justice Jackson cannot overcome the Court’s precedents against individual lawsuits to enforce spending programs.

As a progressive judge, when Kagan thinks you’re wrong and Sotomayor thinks you’ve gone overboard, you should rethink your choices.

The ‘restrainer’ right and the progressives sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins.

The Court declined to blind itself to sex differences, to how medical practice works, or to the uncertain science in this area.