In a ruling today in Jones v. Governor of Florida, the en banc Eleventh Circuit held, by a 6-4 vote, held that Florida law that conditions the restoration of a felon’s voting rights on his paying all fines, fees, and restitution imposed as part of his sentence does not violate any of various federal constitutional

CDC director Robert Redfield greets Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., MD) after a hearing in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) If the executive branch can unilaterally suspend residential evictions to limit the spread of coronavirus, is there anything it can’t do? In response to a once-in-a-century pandemic, the federal government has taken unprecedented actions

Federal Prosecutor Nora Dannehy walks to a taxi after interviewing former Bush White House official Karl Rove in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2009. (Robert Giroux/Reuters) Nora Dannehy, a top federal prosecutor working with U.S. Attorney John Durham on his investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe, resigned from the Justice Department probe on Thursday,

A worker takes a break while cleaning up a basketball court at Glasgow Middle School, a Fairfax County Public School, during deadline day for families and teachers countywide to decide between teaching/learning from home or in the classroom due to the coronavirus, in Falls Church, Va., July 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) This is like something

Visitors at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., September 11, 2015. (Mark Makela/Reuters) On the 19th anniversary of 9/11, NR honors Tom Burnett, who died attempting to retake control of United Airlines Flight 93 from its al-Qaeda Hijackers. Editor’s Note: The following was sent to William F. Buckley Jr. by Thomas Burnett Sr.,

A sign telling students to wear masks on the USC campus in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2020 (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business’ dean is on the defensive after receiving widespread backlash for his handling of an incident in which a communications professor at the school used a Chinese

Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) called to repeal the 17th Amendment on Tuesday, which would eliminate the requirement that U.S. senators be elected by popular votes. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “Make the Senate Great Again,” Sasse called for an end to the amendment, among other changes to the … Read More

President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Londonderry, N.H., August 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters ) The Department of Education issued a proposed rule yesterday to enact a policy that President Trump outlined in an executive order in the spring of 2019, which aimed to incentivize robust free-speech practices on college campuses across the country.

Flames engulf an American flag, Kenosha, Wis., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Editor’s note: This is an open letter organized by Real Clear Foundation. Several signatories have National Review affiliation. We repost it here.  We stand at the crossroads. Over the next several years, the noble sentiments and ideas that gave birth to the United States

President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, June 23, 1972 (The Nixon Library and Museum/Reuters) Bob Woodward. Tapes. You’d think that the most Nixonian president since Tricky Dick himself would have seen that one coming. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ournalism is pretty much all I have ever done for a living. I am what they

Attendees at the 2017 March for Life (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Pro-choice advocates push a new talking point that it isn’t. Let’s look at the record. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s the pro-life movement remains entrenched among American voters, a new pro-choice talking point has entered the media narrative. In the new historiography of the abortion

(Illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) The Wall Street Journal reports that TikTik parent company ByteDance and the Trump administration are evaluating alternatives to the forced sell off that’s been in the works since June. For several weeks, it seemed that such a deal, whereby an American company would purchase the popular video-sharing app, could prevent a ban

President Trump’s determined transformation of the federal judiciary has elevated some of the brightest under-40 members of the conservative legal movement, from Andy Oldham of the Fifth Circuit to Allison Jones Rushing of the Fourth Circuit, to the federal courts. These judges will be on the bench for a very long time, and the left

(Bill Chizek/iStock/Getty Images Plus) President Trump on Wednesday released his updated list of potential Supreme Court nominees and called on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to follow suit. “Should there be another vacancy on the Supreme Court during my presidency, my nominee will come from the names I have shared with the American public,” Trump said

President Trump holds a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, N.C., September 8, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump admitted in March that he wanted to publicly downplay the danger posed by the coronavirus in order to avoid creating “panic,” even as he expressed privately that the disease posed a deadly threat, according to a new book on

Research associate Phuong-Danh Tran, of RNA medicines company Arcturus Therapeutics, researches for a coronavirus vaccine at a laboratory in San Diego, Calif., March 17, 2020. (Bing Guan/Reuters) On the menu today: why we shouldn’t be too discouraged by the news that AstraZeneca is pausing stage-three testing of its otherwise promising candidate for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine,

Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Wash., in 2015. (Matt Mills McKnight/Reuters) Teachers’ unions now have the nation’s parents over a barrel. Local, voluntary, accountable private schools could break their stranglehold while helping kids and strengthening communities. Death, taxes, and appalling behavior on the part of public

(golibtolibov/Getty Images) A few weeks ago, twelve-year-old Isaiah Elliott was suspended from Grand Mountain, an elementary school in Colorado Springs. During an online art class, the teacher saw the boy — who suffers from attention-deficit disorder — flashing a neon green, black, and orange toy gun with the “Zombie Hunter” printed on the side, across

Police officers in riot gear fire pepper balls against rioters in Rochester, New York, September 5, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Hundreds of violent riots resulting in billions of dollars in damage, lost life, and a fraying social fabric is not an issue to be set aside. Has this summer’s unrest been “mostly peaceful,” as some have

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., KY) walks from the Senate Chamber after eliminating the filibuster rule against Supreme Court nominees in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Norman Ornstein’s ‘Smart Way to Fix the Filibuster’ is nothing of the sort. For The Atlantic, Norman Ornstein has written a piece purporting to lay out

(Pixabay) How in the tank for assisted suicide are the media? This much. A headline in the Mercury News about assisted suicide exclaims: “How Doctors are Fixing How We Die.” Good grief. The story is about Lonnie Shavelson, formerly a part-time ER doctor who spent most of his working life as a photo journalist. He first

Voter Michael Grabowski fills out his ballot at a polling station during the primary election in Peru, Ill., March 17, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) One major difference between the 2016 presidential-election cycle and this year is that so far the minor-party candidates appear to be non-factors. Whether or not you think “Gary Johnson and Jill Stein

A tapestry of Pope John Paul II hangs at the Vatican during canonization ceremonies in 2014. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters) America could benefit from serious engagement with The Gospel of Life. I used to be one of those people who argued with the people on television. I was a political junkie from my earliest days, so there

Patrick Pearse (Bain News Service/Library of Congress) Shared sacrifice for the sake of others is a boon, but some varieties of nationalism are performative and selfish. At the very end of my summer, I felt as if I’d experienced the end of the pandemic, or at least I got a foretaste of the end. In

Florida Supreme Court Building (Wikimedia Commons) 2000—Nearly two years after Florida voters vote, 73% to 27%, to amend the state constitution to require that Florida’s ban on “cruel or unusual punishment” comport with U.S. Supreme Court decisions construing the Eighth Amendment, the Florida supreme court (in Armstrong v. Harris) rules, by a 4-to-3 vote, that

A woman wearing a protective mask waits in line to refill gasoline at a gas station with subsidized fuel in Caracas, Venezuela, June 7, 2020. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) How socialism destroyed Venezuela’s economy and impoverished her people. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V enezuela’s last oil-drilling rig has shut down. Venezuela still has plenty of oil — about

A U.S. Postal Service worker unloads packages from his truck in New York City, April 13, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) To the extent the suit’s complaints have any validity, only the most boring might apply. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N ew York attorney general Letitia James has launched a lawsuit against the Postal Service, Postmaster General DeJoy,

Senator Dianne Feinstein on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., May 8, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters ) 2016—Over the public dissenting votes of ten of its judges, the Ninth Circuit issues an order declining to grant rehearing en banc of a divided panel decision in Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Ass’n v. Perez. This case provides a powerful illustration of how liberal judges

Disability-rights activists are some of the greatest and most effective opponents of assisted suicide/euthanasia, correctly identifying it as a form of discrimination. Canadian cuts in social services for the disabled during COVID proves their point. Some poor people with disabilities in Canada are growing so desperate, they are asking their doctors to kill them —

President Trump salutes as he stands with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a military honor guard carries the remains of Americans killed in Syria during a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Del., January 19, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The editor-in-chief of the Atlantic — who published a bombshell report Thursday