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The Kentucky Legislature Removed The Governor’s Power To Temporarily Appoint A Senator
Back in August 2023, I wrote about a potential Seventeenth Amendment conflict in Kentucky. Under Kentucky law, in the event of a Senate vacancy, the Governor could only appoint a temporary Senator of the same political party as the former Senator. The Kentucky Legislature has a Republican super-majority with a Democratic Governor. And the Governor […]
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Nina Jankowicz, Disinformation Czar, Is Back in Action
In a recent newsletter, I fretted that disinformation experts keep failing upward into ever greater positions of prominence, even when their underlying research comes under serious scrutiny. This week, The New York Times commented on—and contributed to—the most compelling example of this phenomenon: Nina Jankowicz, who has returned from exile to launch a new disinformation-tracking […]
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Presidential Bribery and the Clear Statement Rule in Trump v. United States: Revisiting Issues From The First Trump Impeachment and the Mueller Investigation
Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. United States, the presidential immunity case. Much of the argument concerned issues left unresolved during the Trump presidency. First, during the Mueller investigation, it was alleged that Trump violated the federal obstruction of justice statute. I, and others, countered that a criminal statute should only […]
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SCOTUS Weighs the Risk of Presidential Timidity Against the Risk of Presidential Impunity
Without “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for their “official acts,” Donald Trump’s lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, presidents will be afraid to do their jobs. “If a president can be charged, put on trial, and imprisoned for his most controversial decisions as soon as he leaves office, that looming threat will distort […]
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Texas Public Colleges Crack Down on Peaceful Anti-Israel Protests
As pro-Palestine demonstrations erupt at college campuses across the nation, several public colleges in Texas have come under fire for cracking down on peaceful protests. While public universities are bound by the First Amendment, a March executive order by Gov. Greg Abbot forces colleges to suppress antisemitic speech, seemingly motivating some of the universities’ responses […]
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New Evidence that Making Legal Migration Easier Reduces Illegal Border Crossings
(Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) I and others have long argued that making legal migration easier is the best way to reduce disorder at the border. To a large extent, this basic Economics 101: if a much-coveted good or service is banned or severely restricted, that predictably creates a large black market. Thus, just as alcohol prohibition […]
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NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are Not Evidence of Climate Change
“Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters broke U.S. record in 2023, NOAA says,” reported PBS earlier this year. “NOAA: US sees record number of billion-dollar weather, climate disasters in 2023,” observed Fox Weather. “U.S. Hit by Record Number of High-Cost Disasters in 2023,” declared The New York Times. These and many more headlines were based on […]
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The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?
By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics “Death to America!” We are used to that chant. Maybe too used to it. If you are old enough, you heard it in 1979 during the Iranian hostage crisis when supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Since then, it has been a recurring theme of Islamic […]
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Hillary Clinton: Trump Would Like To ‘Kill His Opposition’ If Re-Elected
Hillary Clinton made shocking statements during a recent podcast in which she appeared to suggest that former President Donald Trump would like to “kill his opposition.” The former First Lady made that declaration during a conversation with Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias. She believes Trump will model his presidency after that of Russian President Vladimir […]
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Vance Compares Today’s Ukraine Talking Points To ‘Propaganda’ Used To Justify Iraq War
Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) tore into the Senate’s approval of a $95 billion aid package to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan during a speech to the chamber earlier this week. He compared the narrative to propaganda used to draw America into the Iraq War. History, he believes, is repeating itself. And it’s repeating itself on the […]
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