Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday that voters would learn his position on packing the Supreme Court after the election. Senate Republicans are currently attempting to confirm the appointment of Judge

U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I want to underscore once again just how flatly unacceptable Joe Biden’s now oft-repeated non-answer on packing the Supreme Court is. Here is Biden, once again, refusing to answer the question. “You’ll know my opinion of court packing,” Biden says, “when the election is over.” Joe

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ince it became public that Donald Trump was considering nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, filling the vacant seat left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a great deal of negative media attention has focused on Barrett’s Catholic faith. Some pundits, for instance, have insinuated not

Kamala Harris has come a long way since this time last year. In early October 2019, she was hovering at around 4 percent support among presidential-primary voters, lagging more than 20 points behind frontrunner Joe Biden. She ended her abysmal campaign, deeply in debt, less than two months later. Helped along … Read More

Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2020 vice presidential campaign debate in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Wednesday night refused to say whether she and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would pack the Supreme Court in the event that they

For several decades, the idea of legislation to remove some issues from the jurisdiction of the federal courts has circulated mostly on the right. During the George W. Bush administration, for example, the House twice voted to block federal courts from reviewing the constitutionality of state and local policies requiring the recitation of the Pledge

Eli Steele is following up his powerful 2018 documentary on America, its determination to race-define, and its growing multiracial citizenry, How Jack Became Black (which Victor Davis Hanson at the time praised in The Corner), with another film taking on a major controversy — the provocatively titled What Killed Michael Brown? The documentary considers Brown’s

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released parts of the documents underlying his earlier revelation about Hillary Clinton’s role in orchestrating the Trump-Russia collusion farce. The new revelations are important, particularly in clarifying a suggestion, made last week by Ratcliffe, that U.S. intelligence agencies referred former Secretary

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force news briefing at the White House, July 22, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump has instructed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and other officials to halt negotiations for a new coronavirus relief bill until after the November elections. The announcement came hours after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell

A sign on an insurance store advertises Obamacare in San Ysidro, San Diego, California, October 26, 2017. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Democrats, in the process of grasping at straws to oppose the Amy Coney Barrett nomination, have tried to make a major push about a case the Supreme Court will hear shortly after the election (California v.

White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller watches as President Donald Trump holds an executive order signing event on “hiring American” at the White House, August 3, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller has tested positive for coronavirus, the latest senior Republican official to contract the illness. “Over the last 5 days I

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t a campaign event masquerading as an NBC News town hall this week, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden dropped this statement: I have taken on the people we’re worried about. I’ve taken on the Castros of the world, the Putins of the world. I’ve been straightforward with them. I let them

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V ice-presidential debates are often the political equivalent of a halftime show at a sporting event: You might watch them, but they aren’t the main spectacle. This year’s debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris feels different, especially in the wake of President Trump’s hospitalization and enduring worries about 77-year-old

The president’s hospitalization and the outbreak at the White House are vivid reminders that no, the pandemic is not over, and it is unlikely close to being over. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallies 49,327 new cases and 703 deaths. Worldometers puts Friday’s tally at 50,257 on … Read More

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley flanked by doctors as he arrives to speak to reporters about President Donald Trump’s health at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., October 5, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Roughly three days after the president was transported by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the president

Sen. Lindsey Graham questions former FBI director James Comey as he testifies remotely before the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing to examine the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation in Washington DC., September 30, 2020. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via Reuters) Senate Judiciary Committee head Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) announced on Monday a schedule for hearings for President

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t is a testament to the extraordinary myopia of the American press corps that, day in and day out, it manages to miss not only the biggest story of the moment, but the biggest story that has presented itself within American politics for decades: the threat, currently being issued by many

In the 1970s and 1980s, when the sexual revolution was still in its heyday, a number of romantic comedies hinted that trouble was ahead. Among the best was When Harry Met Sally (1989), written by Nora Ephron in collaboration with Rob Reiner, about a man and a woman who become friends and, as Ephron later

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2020. (Will Dunham/Reuters) 1989—By a vote of 4 to 3, the Florida supreme court rules (in In re TW) that a state statute that requires parental consent for a minor’s abortion (subject to a judicial-bypass exception) violates the state constitutional right to privacy. 1995—In

It shouldn’t have surprised anyone that on college campuses where students returned in person, there were COVID outbreaks. At some schools, it was so bad that the students were sent back home. But how many cases are there? In today’s Martin Center article, Shannon Watkins looks into that question. The good news, she discovered, is

Students wait in line for a temperature check before their first day of in person school at I.S. 318, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 1, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) New York City is looking to close public schools and nonessential businesses in nine zip codes in Brooklyn and Queens on Wednesday, citing the

President Donald Trump gives thumbs up to supporters as he rides by in the presidential motorcade in front of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was treated for the coronavirus in Bethesda, Md., October 4, 2020. (Cheriss May/Reuters) President Trump is “ready” to get back to work, and the White House is hopeful

Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, talks to the media about President Donald Trump’s health after the president was hospitalized for the coronavirus at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., October 3, 2020. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) On the menu today: HIPAA, the American Medical Association’s code of ethics, and other

Pat Toomey questions during testimony before a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senator Pat Toomey is expected to announce Monday that he will not run for reelection when his term expires in 2022. The Pennsylvania Republican has already informed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of his decision, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer address the media after several dams breached, in downtown Midland, Mich., May 20, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Sunday she would no longer use criminal prosecution to enforce the governor’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions after the state Supreme Court found the orders were unconstitutional.  Other law enforcement agencies

Former US Senator, Jim Buckley (R-NY) speaks to attendees about federalism during the 2019 National Review Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on March 29, 2019. James Buckley will receive the Buckley Prize at NRI’s Gala on Monday night. Readers of these pages have heard much about James Lane Buckley’s remarkable

President Donald Trump talks to reporters as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (at right) and other senators listen, in Washington, D.C., May 19, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The president’s hospitalization and the outbreak at the White House are vivid reminders that no, the pandemic is not over, and it is unlikely close to being over. The

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a daily press briefing in Washington, D.C., August 31, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced that she tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, the latest official among President Trump’s inner circle to contract the illness. “After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday,

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters) 1979—Give Harry Pregerson credit for candor. At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to a Ninth Circuit seat, Pregerson is asked what he would do “if a decision in a particular case was required by case law or statute … yet that [decision] offended

On the campus of Syracuse University in early 2020 (Maranie Staab/Reuters) If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19 other than improving people’s hygiene, it is the way the pandemic is deflating the college bubble. There’s plenty of evidence and, in this Oct. 1 Wall Street Journal piece, Steve Moore provides a bit more. He writes