Congress approves war with ISIL with little debate
Congress signed off on President Obama’s plan for an air war against the Islamic State, both in Iraq and in Syria. The war authorization was attached to a budget bill, and it passed both the House and...
View ArticleOverriding Obama’s veto so victims can sue Saudi Arabia
Congress passed a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for enabling some of its citizens to carry out the attacks. But President Obama vetoed the measure, saying that it would violate the...
View ArticleJudge blocks Trump’s new travel ban
President Trump’s new travel ban, revised to eliminate the legal difficulties that a judge found in his first order, has also been thrown out by a federal judge. A Hawaii federal court blocked the ban,...
View ArticleOur superlegislature
Neil Gorsuch was sworn in, informally, and has joined the Supreme Court. A more ceremonial swearing in will take place later. But he is already on the job, in time to hear some important cases. In a...
View ArticleCongressional Republicans in rebellion against Trump
It isn’t just that the Republican-controlled Senate failed to pass President Trump’s initiative to repeal and replace Obamacare. Congressional Republicans were nearly unanimous in passing a bill to...
View ArticleShould Federal Disaster Funds Rebuild Churches?
Formerly, federal disaster funds helped with the rebuilding, but not for churches. Yet now FEMA has reversed that policy.
View ArticleCongress Shall “Regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations”
Now that our trade war with China and other countries is under way, we will see if President Trump’s new tariffs on imports will help our economy by protecting American workers and businesses or...
View ArticleBiden for Prime Minister
Presidents usually lead their parties and take them in the direction they want them to go. Joe Biden, though, is having to placate the different factions in his party, even though he defeated them. He...
View ArticleHow Court Packing Could End Constitutional Government
If the Senate gets into the habit of packing the Supreme Court, our Constitutional government--with its three independent branches that check and balance each other--would cease to exist.
View ArticleThe Return of Legislation
Overturning Roe v. Wade was not the only monumental ruling from the Supreme Court. The decision in West Virginia v. the EPA stops unelected bureaucrats in agencies of the Executive Branch from passing...
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