


As Noah Petersen saw it, he was exercising his freedom of speech when he criticized the Newton, Iowa, police department during the public comment period at a city council meeting. But according to Mayor Michael Hansen and Police Chief Rob Burdess, who handcuffed Petersen and sent him to jail, his comments made him guilty of […]

Tuesday, February 24th on RealClearPolitics – Joined by RCP Contributor and Attorney, Richard Porter

I am pleased to post the final version of my new article Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment, just out in the Boston College Law Review. Here’s the abstract: An important question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a […]

Has any President ever lost such a significant case before the Supreme Court? I don’t think so. That is the theme of my latest piece in City Journal, titled “Trump’s Tariff Loss Is the Worst Judicial Defeat in Presidential History.” Here is the introduction: How bad was President Trump’s loss last week at the Supreme […]

President Jose Jeri morphed into the Anthony Scaramucci of South American politics, getting punted after a measly 4 months in office as the head of state in Peru. He barely had time to order

State leaders’ opposition to Trump’s efforts to divide them made this year’s gathering uncommonly notable.

Michael LaRosa: Gov. Abigail Spanberger should give America something unscripted, human and real