Dan McLaughlin

The Court was right that some presidential acts can’t be criminalized. But it pushed that principle too far, and its application not far enough.

The Court was right to be skeptical of the parties trying to shift their litigating positions on the fly but could have given clarity to federal law.

The Court struck another blow for the right to a jury and exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal dissenters.

By allowing the executive branch to use diffuse pressure to regulate speech in ways that Congress could not by law, the Court expands the imperial power of the president to stifle dissent.

The Court’s decision in Erlinger v. United States sends an unambiguous message against watering down the rights of the accused.

The Court’s decision in U.S. v. Rahimi empowers the government to limit the gun rights of violent people, but dodges questions about due process of law.

The Supreme Court turned back an effort to define when income is realized for tax purposes, but left the big questions for another day.

The text of the statute used in January 6 cases supports the government’s arguments.

The justice’s dissent was a train wreck of bad reasoning.

Secretly recorded conversations with Justice Alito and his wife tell us mostly that the justice worries about polarization and his wife handles the flags.

Instead of returning to the Constitution to end litigation over redistricting, the Supreme Court applied more rigor to such lawsuits.

A hit job on Justice Alito’s wife not only misses the mark, it misrepresents the justice’s record.

Did a spending program for the elderly reassign state standards of medical care and abortion law to the ‘medical community’?

In a new nationwide rule, Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission has discarded its legal restraints.

Donald Trump’s lawyer was playing a weak hand before the Supreme Court in the immunity argument.

Joe Biden’s Education Department has screwed up again, leaving colleges and financial-aid applicants in limbo.

The more the political Left abandons the field of nationalism, the greater will be the political Right’s power to deploy it.

The Eleventh Circuit should not let this ship sail.

Kavanaugh should’ve killed the CDC’s illegal eviction moratorium when it first came before SCOTUS a month ago. He can’t afford to make the same mistake twice.

Who’d have thunk it?

The name change for the Indians reinforces the message that the lords of the sport care more about the opinions of liberal commentators than about the fans.

The Supreme Court is aiming higher.

The South invoked the Founders’ struggle for freedom — and ignored crucial differences in doing so.

The case is good news for helping judges ferret out the weakest and most implausible investor class actions.

A weak lawsuit dies, and nobody comes out looking good.

If this is what constitutes ‘success’ for the vice president, one shudders to contemplate what failure would look like.

Did Federalist Society students make it worse?

An intelligence-community report on the question as summarized by President Biden just won’t cut it.

Here’s what happened in the two criminal-law decisions the Court handed down today.

Why the soft-drink giant is pulling back from its left-wing posturing.