Trump is right to focus on Voice of America
(April 16) Let’s set aside for now the argument about whether President Trump can or should adjourn Congress (as he has threatened) in order to make recess appointments for unfilled […]
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Trump, like Obama before him, is abusing inspectors general
Trump’s firing of intelligence community inspector general is unethical (April 6): President Trump’s firing of intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson is clearly unethical, and it contradicts the obvious intent […]
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Several considerations against a national quarantine
(April 3) The media should stop clamoring for a nationally ordered lockdown, or “quarantine,” to respond to the current pandemic. The president almost certainly lacks constitutional authority to order one, […]
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Biden took the virus seriously earlier than Trump did
(April 2) If Joe Biden had been president this year rather than Donald Trump, the national response to the coronavirus would likely have been more effective, because it would have […]
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Patients need more advice on treating the virus
(March 16) To this layman, it seems that authorities are doing far better at telling us how to avoid the spread of the coronavirus than they are at telling us how […]
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Why Jeff Sessions still has a real chance to win
(March 18) Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have just received a lifeline in his bid to regain the Senate seat that he held for 20 years. Alabama Gov. Kay […]
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One good thing about Trump’s instincts on the virus
(March 20) While it’s true that President Trump shouldn’t oversell the chances that antimalarial drugs will provide major relief to symptoms of the coronavirus, his instincts in favor of letting […]
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Two on Trump and the virus
Trump blew his national address on COIVD-19 (March 11). President Trump’s speech on the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst Oval Office addresses, terrible on both style and specifics. […]
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Judge merits punishment for unethical, overt politicking
(Published March 13) Precedent suggests that a federal district court judge from Wisconsin merits severe discipline for his recent, highly politicized paper in the Harvard Law & Policy Review. In […]
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Why Jeff Sessions may have a runoff advantage after all
(March 4) President Trump already is taking potshots at former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but a further analysis of yesterday’s Alabama Republican primary for the U.S. Senate should give Sessions […]
