Revenge for Merrick Garland?
Brett Kavanaugh Should Get a Vote Before the Midterm Elections
Kavanaugh Reaction
I’m quoted in this CBS News commentary by Michael Graham:
“Brett Kavanaugh is basically John Roberts 2.0, a product of the Bush Administration and the conservative legal elite,” says Dan McLaughlin of the conservative “National Review.”
“He’s not the most populist choice, or the most politically provocative. But he’s a serious movement conservative, brilliant, universally well-liked, experienced, and independent-minded, and a devoted critic of the administrative state.”
“If you’re a Federalist Society conservative who wants to win the long-term arguments about how law is made, Brett Kavanaugh is a great choice,” McLaughlin said.
and this Caleb Howe piece from before the choice (I guessed wrong, predicting Judge Raymond Kethledge) – my preferred picks:
“Amy Coney Barrett and Am[u]l Thapar. Trump dipped into the traditional elite Beltway movement conservative high priesthood for Gorsuch, to great effect, and its candidates (Kavanaugh and Kethledge) are highly qualified and solidly conservative. But this time, he needs more than just another smart white man in a dark suit. Barrett and Thapar are DC outsider picks but both brilliant and highly conservative, Thapar as a veteran trial judge, Barrett as a distinguished academic. Barrett would provoke the most outlandish response, and be the best choice for energizing Republicans heading into the midterms.”
Early Thoughts on The Supreme Court and the Midterms
Trump’s Revised Travel Ban Survives
Don’t Throw the Republicans Out: A Response to George Will
Businesses Still Don’t Know The Rules For Moral Judgment
The Quiet Republican Check on Trump
Romans 13 and the Thorny Moral Questions Posed by Illegal Immigration
The FBI Inspector General Report Directly Criticized President Obama
The Supreme Court’s Narrow Decision on Purging Voter Rolls
Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Is a Win for Religious Freedom, But . . .
Reunions and the Power of Nostalgia
The Missouri GOP Just Held One of Its Own Accountable
The NFL’s Anthem-Protest Rule Is Not a Threat to Free Speech
The Scarlet Letter Is Back. It Never Really Went Away.
How Many Murders Is a National Crisis?
The Christian America Paradox
Jeff Sessions Is Doing More Than Thoughts and Prayers
Why The Royals Matter, and Why The U.S. Needs Its Own
The Unfixable Tragedy of Gaza
Kirsten Gillibrand’s Empty Gender Rhetoric
The Misery of the Mets fan
NY POST: The misery of the Mets fan (in this morning’s paper)
Eric Schneiderman Goes Down
Ronan Farrow’s Moment
Repeal The Logan Act
NRO: Repeal The Logan Act
The End of an Era at RedState
Maybe the British Royal Family Isn’t So Silly After All
RIP Barbara Bush, 1925-2018
Donald Trump At War: A Conventional American Response to Syria
Paul Ryan’s Missed Opportunities on Spending
Why Failed National Political Candidates Should Go Home
How Never Trump Can Avoid Delusion
Realism, Not Delusion, about Trump and the Conservative Movement
There’s No Ban on Studying Gun Violence
The Supreme Court Proves It Didn’t Mean What It Said in King v. Burwell
How a Pro-Life Democrat Drew an Illinois Nazi as His Opponent
Wakanda Has the Right’s Foreign-Policy Debate
NRO Editors 3/1/18
Let’s Have Some Common Sense on Arming Teachers
A More Modest Proposal on Young Men and Guns
Let the Kids Talk – but That’s Not the End of Any Debate
NRO Editors Podcast 2/17/18
NRO Editors Podcast: Episode 77: Another Horror (post-Parkland)