Publication: Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

The panic over Mr. Barr and the supposed political corruption of his Justice Department is partisan nonsense. The rule of law is doing fine. Critics can denounce Mr. Trump if he pardons Mr. Stone, as he probably will, but the verdict on that should be in the November election.

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The presidential action recognizes that the Milken prosecution of the late 1980s-early 1990s was an example of prosecutorial excess in an era like our own when political gales were raging about “the greed decade.”…In the long run of history, Mike Milken has done more good for more people with his financial innovations and philanthropy than all the scribes of envy politics ever will.

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Voters chose Donald Trump as an antidote to the growing inflammation caused by the prosperity-crushing, speech-inhibiting, nanny state-building, carbon-obsessing, patriarchy-bashing, implicit bias-accusing, tokey-wokey, globalist, swamp-creature governing class— embodied by the Democrats’ 2016 nominee. On taking office, Trump created a diversion (tweets, border walls, tariffs) as a smokescreen to let them implement an agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and originalist judges.

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His vote against witnesses was rooted in constitutional wisdom.

Wall Street Journal

Karl Rove: His dealings with foreign officials and Congress look as suspect as Trump’s.

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The ‘unitary executive’ implies both a strong presidency and clear limits on presidential powers.

Wall Street Journal

Why not amend the Constitution so that any president who is impeached and acquitted is permitted to serve a third term? That would allow him to make up for the time lost advancing the agenda that voters elected him to enact. It would preserve impeachment for genuine offenses but discourage its use for disputed ones and for mere politics.

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His son Hunter and Donald Trump aren’t dragging him down. He’s doing it himself.

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Bobby Jindal: Lots of voters dislike the president but will be convinced to vote for him by seeing his opponents.

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What did the House Intel Committee chairman know and when did he know it?

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The impeachment case Trump was supposed to be ‘understandable.’ In two weeks, it has become incomprehensible.

Wall Street Journal

Nixon only fell after Republicans defected. So far, Trump retains their strong support.

Wall Street Journal

The phone call evidence isn’t enough to annul a presidential election.

Wall Street Journal

Karl Rove: At the Democratic debate, candidates decried divisiveness while sowing division.