Immigration Push Back: Don't Confirm His Judges
Congress’s approval of unconditional funding for the Department of Homeland Security was an embarrassing setback in Republicans’ struggle...
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John Lott
- Nov 21, 2013
New York Post piece on the "nuclear option" push in the Senate
My newest piece at the New York Post starts this way: President Obama’s timing could have been better. Only two weeks ago in Texas, at a...
John Lott
- Oct 20, 2013
New piece at Politico: The dumbing down of America's judges
My piece at Politico starts this way: Think that attending a top university and graduating at the top of the class is the key to your...
John Lott
- Oct 16, 2013
Fox News piece: Obama, other Democrats all wrong about Republican obstruction of judicial nominees
My newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The Senate Judiciary committee will vote on either Wednesday or Thursday whether to confirm...
John Lott
- Jul 1, 2010
Kagan's Precedents on Guns
When saying one with follow precedent doesn't mean a lot. From a piece that I had at Fox News: Alarm bells should have gone off during...
Curt Levey
- Aug 7, 2008
New Article in Townhall Magazine: "Holding the Line"
Judicial activism is the subject of the cover story in this month’s Townhall Magazine. The article, by Committee for Justice Executive...
Townhall Magazine, August 2008 Cover Story
- Aug 1, 2008
Holding the Line: Scalia-style strict constructionists are standing in the way of a “living Constitu
Judicial activism is not the failure to follow precedent. Courts must generally adhere to their past decisions and those of higher courts. B
Op-ed published in The Chronicle of Higher
- Jul 18, 2003
Affirmative Action: Colleges Should Take No Comfort in the Supreme Court's Reprieve
In striking down racial-admissions preferences at the University of Michigan's liberal-arts college in Gratz v. Bollinger while upholdin