Rule of law

If a mother grounds her child for three weeks but has no real way to enforce it, extending the punishment to nine weeks doesn't suddenly make it more enforceable.

For the past three weeks, representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been playing the role of the consultants in the movie "Office Space."

In September 1789, Congress passed the United States Judiciary Act and George Washington signed it. It established the federal court system and committed this country to the rule of law.

Any reasonable prosecutor—or so-called "prosecutor"—would have conceded defeat and dropped the lawfare madness.

Following the failed assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump, Americans have a lot to think about.

Jonathan Turley's Saturday opinion article comes nearly a month after a Manhattan jury convicted Trump and days after the Supreme Court ruled on two cases.

Democrats have no idea what they have unleashed.

The Biden Regime wants to galvanize Republican primary voters to "rally around the flag" of the persecuted Trump.

Mona Charen, a former speechwriter for the Reagan family, said the indictment allows Trump to play up his "favorite posture—aggrieved victim of the Democrats."

Half the country is enraged by what they feel is a system now overtly tilted against them.

While the identity of the individual (a former president) being indicted and criminally charged might be exceptional, nothing else about this moment would be. We are simply witnessing our legal system and rule of law principles at work.

Then-Vice President Biden stole these classified documents before he left the Obama White House in January 2017.

The Biden regime is out of control in its pursuit of punishing a past and likely-future political rival of President Biden.

The Biden Regime has demonstrated its willingness, and indeed its eagerness, to take America to hitherto unprecedented depths of depravity.

Like so much else in the Biden administration, public reaction suggests a serious backfire in the works.

In the case of ancient Rome, no legal procedures were ever carried out against Caesar. In the American republic, we're seeing what a judiciary can do when free from totalitarian influences enforced at the end of a spear.

The pretense of the rule of law is gone.

House Republicans owe it to the Constitution and the American people to defeat the wolves and return them to sheep status.

Just as confronting the Chinese Communist Party is our most pressing foreign issue, so, too, has securing law and order become our most pressing domestic issue.

We should expand the doctrine of tortious interference to cover actions with no direct and legitimate commercial purpose.

Demagogically encouraging the rule of the mob clearly is a violation of every member of Congress's responsibility to uphold the rule of law and the Constitution.

The Constitution institutes regular elections to guard American freedom, but without structural limits on federal power, our elections would be ineffective at protecting our sacred liberty.

Chauvin needs due process not necessarily as an example for the world, but as a reaffirmation of who we are.

"In his reply brief, plaintiff 'asks that the Rule of Law' be followed," U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig wrote. "It has been."

As a former law clerk of hers, I am one of the many people who models his life on Judge Barrett's.

The stakes of this election are terrifyingly high.

Last week's Democratic National Convention was one massive exercise in lawlessness.

"Dismantle DHS" is just as silly as "Abolish ICE" and "Defund the Police."

Marc Levin of Texas Public Policy Foundation's Right on Crime initiative debates Rafael A. Mangual of Manhattan Institute and City Journal.

Government's first, and most solemn, duty is to protect the safety of its citizens.