The United States has seen more COVID-19 deaths per capita than all but 10 countries. In a one-year retrospective on the pandemic, The New York Times blames the lack of “a unified national strategy,” which it says led to a “fractured” response. At bottom, that critique—like federal COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci’s complaint that “the states are […]
American Thinker has unreservedly apologized to Dominion Voting Systems for publishing “completely false” statements about the company’s involvement in an imaginary anti-Trump plot that supposedly delivered a phony victory to President-elect Joe Biden. The conservative website, one of several right-wing outlets that promoted the wacky conspiracy theory, was responding to a letter in which Dominion […]
George Floyd’s horrific death at the hands of Minneapolis police last year focused national attention on qualified immunity, the court-invented doctrine that can shield cops from federal civil rights lawsuits even for outrageous misconduct. Although the officers involved in Floyd’s death face criminal charges, qualified immunity is so expansive that it could prevent his family […]
Newly identified COVID-19 cases in the United States, after falling between December 18 and December 29, have risen to record levels since then, a trend that may reflect infections tied to Christmas and New Year’s gatherings. Daily deaths also have climbed to record highs since late December, with no sign of letting up. According to […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.), who steadfastly resisted Donald Trump’s first impeachment and did not acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory until more than a month after the election, is reportedly pleased by today’s vote to impeach Trump a second time. McConnell “has concluded that President Trump committed impeachable offenses and believes that Democrats’ move […]
Apparently it took two impeachments to make Donald Trump presidential. Watching the five-minute message of peace and unity that the White House released this evening, many Americans will be inclined to wonder: Where has this guy been for the last four years, and especially last week? “The incursion of the U.S. Capitol struck at the […]
When Simon & Schuster canceled publication of Josh Hawley’s book The Tyranny of Big Tech, the Missouri senator called the decision “a direct assault on the First Amendment.” For reasons the Yale-trained lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk should understand, that description was wildly wrong. By contrast, another reaction to last week’s deadly assault on […]
The article of impeachment against President Donald Trump that the House of Representatives is expected to approve tomorrow invokes Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a little-discussed provision originally aimed at former Confederates. As relevant here, Section 3 says “no person” may “hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,” who, “having previously […]
During the January 2 telephone conversation in which President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes necessary to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in that state, Raffensperger tried to test the outer boundaries of Trump’s election-fraud allegations. Raffensperger suggested that Trump’s concerns focused on “the absentee ballot process,” as opposed […]
During the rally that preceded Wednesday’s deadly attack on the Capitol by enraged Trump supporters, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, said he was about to blow the lid off machine-facilitated election fraud in Georgia. That was not true. The next day, President Donald Trump’s lawyers dropped four lawsuits alleging election irregularities and fraud in […]
