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• Government abuse of power, times five

  By Quin Hillyer / 20 May 2023

  

  FBI director Chris Wray acts like Biden’s ‘made man’ (May 11):  Another day, another high-handed, leftist-protecting, corruption-enabling action by FBI Director Christopher Wray. On May 10, Wray refused to comply […]

   

• A Supreme Court threesome

  By Quin Hillyer / 1 May 2023

  

  Roberts should testify — later (April 20): Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) has good reasons to invite Chief Justice John Roberts to testify about Supreme Court ethics reform. […]

   

• Supreme Court should rein in abusive IRS

  By Quin Hillyer / 27 March 2023

  

  (March 24)  The Supreme Court hears a case on March 29 that will test whether there is any real limit to the frighteningly invasive power of the IRS . In Polselli v. IRS, the high court […]

   

• Sotomayor understands Thomas, but media doesn’t get it

  By Quin Hillyer / 29 October 2022

  

  (Oct. 21) Pundits are marveling on Friday about liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor praising the personal decency of conservative colleague Clarence Thomas , but what’s really amiss is the pundits’ own assumptions. Political views […]

   

• A two-fer on why Bama redistricting really is okay

  By Quin Hillyer / 10 October 2022

  

  The Supreme Court should not make a twisted hodge-podge of redistricting law even worse by throwing out Alabama’s congressional map. Two pieces below explain why. (Links to full columns embedded […]

   

• A Fabulous Five (one rather Earthy)

  By Quin Hillyer / 2 October 2022

  

  Five columns from the Washington Examiner, with links to full columns embedded in each headline. Alabama’s Katie Britt will be an upbeat new senator (Sept. 28) NASA may just save […]

   

• Six takes on the Supreme Court

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 July 2022

  

  In these six pieces related to the Supreme Court, the link to the full column is embedded in each headline. Why won’t AG Merrick Garland protect Supreme Court justices? (July […]

   

• The OTHER big Supreme Court ruling was unanimous

  By Quin Hillyer / 9 May 2022

  

  (Official Washington Examiner editorial, May 3) A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday again made clear that government may not act with hostility against religion. This bears repeating because so many leftist ideologues and willfully […]

   

• Explaining Alito’s draft abortion decision

  By Quin Hillyer / 9 May 2022

  

  [Two pieces analyzing, and correcting the record about, Justice Alito’s draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade. For the full version of each column, please follow the link embedded […]

   

• Vote against Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ)

  By Quin Hillyer / 28 March 2022

  

  (Official Washington Examiner editorial, March 25) Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a fine person with an impressive resume, should nonetheless not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Her record and testimony show she […]