GianCarlo Canaparo is a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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How do you solve a problem like a rogue agency? When a Democrat occupies the White House, you can be reasonably sure that administrative agencies… Read More
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The mainstream media has attempted to fact-check Justice Clarence Thomas, alleging that in a recent Supreme Court opinion he falsely claimed that COVID-19 vaccines in… Read More
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In the still dark hours of Wednesday morning, a man armed with a gun, a knife, and burglary tools was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice… Read More
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When the left tries to impose its policy visions on others, often the only winning move is not to play its game. But when it… Read More
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There’s a lot of fearmongering these days about what the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion potentially overturning Roe v. Wade would mean if… Read More
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Imagine that a friend of yours wants to lose 10 pounds. You might advise your friend to diet, avoid unhealthy foods, and exercise more. You… Read More
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Violent crime, like the price of gas, is rising. Not everyone is experiencing this crime wave in the same way. For some, it’s a distant… Read More
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Democrats love to propose wealth taxes. California Democrats have done it, congressional Democrats have done it many times, and now it looks as though President… Read More
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Recently, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced an amendment that would split the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases into three separate agencies, thus eliminating… Read More
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Ketanji Brown Jackson may soon become the newest justice of the Supreme Court. Her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing began Monday. Democrats praised the historic nature… Read More
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A capable presidential administration plans, anticipates, and implements strategies. An ineffective administration bounces haphazardly from crisis to crisis. It’s the difference between playing chess and… Read More
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The Justice Department last week announced creation of a domestic terrorism unit to focus on a purported significant threat facing America. Also last week, President… Read More
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This week, we revealed that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of the “personal religious information” employees who had religious objections to the… Read More
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A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push… Read More
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William F. Buckley Jr. famously described the role of conservatives as standing athwart history yelling, “Stop.” Usually, we stand in front of what liberals claim… Read More
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This term the Supreme Court will hear four consolidated cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. That… Read More
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Democrats have proposed partly funding some of their multitrillion-dollar spending plan with a tax on the “unrealized capital gains” of anyone who makes more than… Read More
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In economics, there’s a thought experiment called the “prisoners’ dilemma” that describes a scenario in which two rational people fail to reach a win-win outcome… Read More
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Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on Monday directing the Department of Justice and the FBI to “launch a series of additional efforts in… Read More
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Federal District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday granted judgment in favor of Texas and Missouri against the Biden administration in their lawsuit over the president’s… Read More
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In a recently published blog, David French, a Christian conservative commentator, argues that “systemic racism” is real and that Christians have an obligation to cure… Read More
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Twenty-two of the Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C, to prevent a quorum in the state House have filed a lawsuit in federal court… Read More
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Lady Justice is blind, so that everyone before her is equal, regardless of wealth, power, or race. That doesn’t sit well with proponents of critical… Read More
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Judges can’t avoid politics by playing politics. That might seem like a no-brainer to most people, but some judges can’t seem to figure that out. … Read More
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Three House Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after she enforced a mask mandate against them. The three—Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.;… Read More
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that a state law permitting labor union organizers to enter farmland without permission to try to organize workers was… Read More
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The Supreme Court handed down its decision Thursday in California v. Texas, the third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, colloquially called Obamacare. The high… Read More
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Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 5 struck down the nationwide ban on evictions from rental… Read More
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President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be… Read More
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez as well as a related case brought by the Thomas… Read More
