A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Publication: Wall Street Journal
After Mar-a-Lago Raid, Let Voters Decide Trump’s Future
An already depressed U.S. doesn’t need a replay of the first term’s endless investigations.
The Payback for Mar-a-Lago Will Be Brutal
What went around Monday will come around hard for the Democrats when Republicans control the Justice Department and FBI.
Trump Can’t Be “Disqualified” Over Documents
The law on government records is complicated, but the constitutional issues are simple. He can run in the 2024 presidential election.
The FBI’s Dangerous Trump Search
Merrick Garland is taking the U.S. down a perilous path.
What If They Gave a War and Everyone Was Woke
The military’s embrace of faddish politics may make activists happy, but it’s driving away recruits.
Environmental Activists Can Worsen Wildfires
An undergrowth of red tape and litigation stands in the way of the Biden administration’s 10-year forest-management plan.
Trashing Clarence Thomas
The House Jan. 6 committee may subpoena Ginni Thomas, but don’t think this is about the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. This is an attempt to damage the Justice, and it won’t help the committee’s cause.
The President Who Stood Still on Jan. 6
Even as the riot raged at the Capitol, Trump wouldn’t tell his supporters to stop.
Has Biden Lost It? He Never Had It
His presidency’s failure rests on a longstanding character flaw: He follows the Democratic Party wherever it goes.
The West’s Climate Policy Debacle
Soaring oil and natural gas prices. Electricity grids on the brink of failure. Energy shortages in Europe, with worse to come. These are some of the unfolding results in the last year caused by the West’s utopian dream to punish fossil fuels and sprint to a world driven solely by renewable energy.
Sri Lanka’s Green New Deal Was a Human Disaster
An ill-advised national experiment in organic farming yielded starvation, poverty and political chaos.
Biden and Fauci Botched the Pandemic Response
Instead of protecting the vulnerable, they bet too heavily on vaccines to achieve herd immunity.
Chick-fil-A Beats the Boycott
The restaurant chain remains the most popular in America, despite political attacks. Progressives made Chick-fil-A a boycott target over the chain’s support for conservative cultural causes. Its stores are closed on Sundays, and former company president Dan Cathy was vocal in supporting groups that opposed same-sex marriage.
Why the Rush for Toddler Vaccines?
Covid was clearly a health emergency for adults in 2020. By contrast, the urgency now feels political.
A Football Coach’s Prayer Is Constitutional
Another touchdown for religious liberty from the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court Reclaims Its Legitimacy
In the 1973 abortion case, not today, the justices overstepped their boundaries and made their institution political.
The Justices Didn’t Lie to the Senate About Abortion
No one in the Supreme Court’s Dobbs majority promised to uphold Roe v. Wade.
Trump and Biden Both Face Rejection
Peggy Noonan: This is the big political story now: Both parties are rejecting their leaders, Donald Trumpand Joe Biden. It’s a continuing tectonic shift and the story underlying every daily political story. It’s building and will only grow. Both parties are starting to scramble for what’s next, who’s next. Both are casting about.
The Jan. 6 Committee Calls Ginni Thomas
Democrats on the House Jan. 6 committee are still hoping to discover a trail of bread crumbs leading to the Supreme Court, and specifically Justice Clarence Thomas, but they may be supremely disappointed.
The Uncredible Jan. 6 Committee
Americans needed a serious accounting. Democrats assured they won’t get one.
“Why I Quit Georgetown”
Ilya Shapiro: The university didn’t fire me, but it yielded to the progressive mob, abandoned free speech, and created a hostile environment.
The White House Keeps Stoking Covid Fears
Covid is “a far greater threat to kids than the flu is,” Ashish Jha claims, citing a flawed study.
Harvard Needs Merit-Based Admissions
Alan Dershowitz: I believe the result of a merit-based policy would be more meaningful diversity. The result of such a policy would likely give way to more political, ideological, geographic, religious and other types of diversity that are at least as relevant to the educational mission of the university as race and ethnicity.