Dan McLaughlin

A case about who can sue to enforce federal law descended into a bitter battle between Justices Barrett and Jackson over legislative history.

Executive power, transgender sports, and birthright citizenship lead a docket crowded with immigration, gun rights, and election law cases — and much more.

Pulling a Biden or Torricelli swap will not be that easy.

Two victories for federal agencies and one for makers of generic drugs.

Moral choices in voting are hard work.

Walking away from the war with Iran may be the lesser evil compared with accepting a bad deal.

After 54 years, the commission will no longer bar settling defendants from speaking.

Nothing in the Constitution prevents the execution of dumb guys who kill people.

Once again, Trump is doing the quiet part loudly.

The Supreme Court should make the FDA do its job before it exercises power.

‘I know we’re missing something . . . and I’m very distressed by it,’ the justice said of declining civics and history education, in an interview with NR.

A fight over the Utah Supreme Court has turned exceptionally ugly.

Congress should build upon Trump administration reforms to help American Catholics.

The scurrilous left-wing group had to pay for racism to meet demand. But the criminal case may not stick.

The Times inadvertently illustrates that Barack Obama was the real norm-breaker in the showdown between the Supreme Court and the executive branch.

The desire to identify with others is subject to the same human passions as the draw of defending our own.

After ten years, there’s little worth saying about Trump’s character — but much still to be said about policies and results.

The vice president will run to succeed his boss unless he falls out of favor with Trump.

War with Iran, to be worth it, needs to produce undeniable change that doesn’t require intelligence analysts to explain.

The right should know better than to let the left dictate the terms of battle.

If you believe that America is an idea more than a people, it doesn’t follow that we should open our borders to people who don’t share that idea.

Lowering the bar from 60 senators to 51 would be a bonanza for Democrats.

The judicial power, and duty, to invalidate unconstitutional laws wasn’t the work of one inventive judge.

Politics alone suggests that one or both of the most senior justices should retire. But there’s always more to that decision.

Democrats could find themselves briefly in power with their prospects slipping away. Beware what they may do.

Don’t admire Woodrow Wilson. Not even once.

If Casey DeSantis passes on the Florida governor’s race, the incumbent will find himself at a crossroads.

Trump has overestimated what he could achieve and underestimated the voters, allies, and legal grounding needed to make his accomplishments last.

Declining net migration and a continuing shift to the red states is redrawing America’s political map.

ICE tactics are the pretext; the real issue is whether states can make themselves no-go zones immune from federal law.