Mazie Hirono

January 18, 2019|Affordable Care Act, DACA, Kamala Harris, Mazie Hirono, William Barr

Why Bill Barr Is Trump’s Best Appointment

by John O. McGinnis|12 Comments

William P. Barr appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation as Attorney General, January 17, 2019 (Christy Bowe/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News).

No cabinet official can get a President in more trouble faster than his Attorney General, and Trump has made the right choice with Bill Barr.

August 16, 2018|Brett Kavanaugh, Corey Booker, Mazie Hirono, McCleskey v. Kemp, Richard Sullivan, Sheldon Whitehouse

How Kavanaugh Should Respond to Senators’ Questions, Part II

by John O. McGinnis|2 Comments

Brett Kavanaugh delivers remarks after President Donald J. Trump announces his nomination to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, July 9th, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Alex Edelman/CNP /MediaPunch/Alamy Stock Photo).

Expect to see these questions and lines of attack at Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, because senators often use them, regardless of the nominee.

January 26, 2018|Diane Feinstein, Federalist Society, John Kennedy, Mazie Hirono, Nicholas Rosenkranz, Originalism, Ted Cruz

Originalism Needs an Adult Education Program

by John O. McGinnis|16 Comments

In the academic world, originalism has become the theory of constitutional interpretation to beat.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

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