Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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The Trump administration, not yet two months old, is making clear it wants a better reading of the First Amendment’s protection for religious freedom. And… Read More
Health CareCommentary
To say that a lot of things are changing since President Donald Trump took office for the second time is like saying a hurricane has… Read More
LawCommentary
When Congress enacted the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in 1994, the advocates’ sales pitch was that it would address an alleged organized… Read More
LawCommentary
Everyone agrees that those in certain positions, from teachers to doctors, should report instances of child abuse and neglect. Democrat lawmakers in Washington state, however,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If you think that regimes trying to control their people through suppressing expression the government doesn’t like only happens in “those” parts of the world,… Read More
LawCommentary
With just days before leaving office, President Joe Biden has shared his personal belief that the Equal Rights Amendment is now part of the Constitution…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Thomas Jefferson’s resume is hard to beat. At 23, he was serving in the Virginia Colonial Legislature and, within a decade, he was in the… Read More
LawCommentary
The Equal Rights Amendment is dead. Not, as Miracle Max put it in “The Princess Bride,” “mostly dead,” but “all dead.” ERA advocates, however, just… Read More
LawAnalysis
The U.S. Supreme Court had only one case slated for oral argument Wednesday morning, but it was a doozy. With protesters chanting outside, the court… Read More
The new Republican majority in the 119th Congress has to prove its worth, beginning with how it handles President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Trump should… Read More
President Joe Biden has had a good run of successful judicial appointments. His total of 214 ranks third on the list of most appointments in… Read More
Abortion was on the ballot Tuesday in more ways than one. Nationally, Kamala Harris’ campaign increasingly emphasized the issue, claiming that electing Donald Trump again… Read More
In an essay published by The New York Times and titled “Abortion Pills Are Safe. Post-Roe America Isn’t,” Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky, a physician who… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Abortion is on the ballot in the 2024 election. It’s literally on the ballot in 10 states, with voters deciding whether to amend their constitutions… Read More
EducationCommentary
As if Nevada parents didn’t already have their hands full, including helping their children navigate the waters of adolescent sexuality. Now gender activists increasingly are… Read More
LawCommentary
To hear Vice President Kamala Harris tell it, the Supreme Court’s decision this summer to curb the federal bureaucracy’s authority to interpret vague laws so… Read More
The American Bar Association first endorsed adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in 1972, the year that Congress proposed and sent it to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Retired Sen. James Inhofe passed away recently and, in addition to the glowing tributes from others, I wanted to share a personal anecdote about how… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A few things in life are certain: death, taxes, and the Left trying to control the Supreme Court. From demanding the unnecessary addition of more… Read More
LawCommentary
One reason the colonies declared independence from Great Britain was the political manipulation of the courts, but the Left today seems to think that judicial… Read More
LawCommentary
The Supreme Court, in its decision on Thursday in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, ordered the lower court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the… Read More
Commentary
The American people just won’t govern themselves the way the Left tells them to. Caring more about power than liberty, the Left believes that its… Read More
LawCommentary
The Left is about power and achieving their political objectives by any means necessary. That includes trying to silence or sideline judges unlikely to be… Read More
LawCommentary
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two consolidated cases, Moyle v. Idaho and Idaho v. United States, to determine whether a federal law governing… Read More
EducationCommentary
Schools across the country routinely inform parents—and often must obtain their written permission—about all sorts of things, from a trip to the zoo to taking… Read More
LawCommentary
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two combined cases regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of abortion drugs. In Alliance for… Read More
LawCommentary
My mom taught me that saying something you know is not true is a lie. President Joe Biden told some whoppers Thursday night in his… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Rumors abound that Senate Democrats want to avoid holding a trial on the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by “tabling” or… Read More
LawCommentary
The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent 7-2 decision that a frozen embryo is a “child” under the state’s wrongful-death statute demonstrates once again that judges have… Read More
LawCommentary
Carter G. Woodson is widely credited with the activism that, in 1926, established a week, and later a month, to focus on the history and… Read More
