If lawlessness is at the center of the coming legal war, it will instead be the lawlessness of judicial activism, which we got a taste of in

Seemingly unaware of the obvious hypocrisy, Schumer, Leahy and other Democrats accuse President Trump of questioning Judge Robart's legi

In an op-ed in The Hill, Curt Levey writes that the "tried-and-true playbooks may turn out to be of little use in this contest, but ...

Doubts about Trump faded when Republicans and like-minded voters looked back at the High Court's unmistakably activist decisions on Obam

The Committee for Justice wishes you a happy and healthy 2016 and thanks you for your interest in our work and your generous support throughout 2015. CFJ President Curt Levey participated in a December 15 panel discussion on the 15th anniversary of Bush v. Gore, hosted by the progressive American Constitution Society. The first interesting article on judicial nominations that we've seen in the new year is a January 3 Washington Post op-ed by Linda Hirshman, warning that "th

It is no coincidence that following President Obama's address today about the National Security Agency's (NSA) collection of phone call data, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases concerning the police's warrantless collection of data from the seized cell phones of arrestees. The Court will decide whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against warrantless search and seizure. Both the NSA controversy and the two cell phone cases (U.S. v. Wurie and

Today the Supreme Court hears oral argument in the biggest campaign finance case since Citizens United, and the Committee for Justice has we

This week, the Committee for Justice filed an amicus curiae brief in McCutcheon v. FEC, the next big campaign finance case before the U.S. S

The media coverage leading up to today’s Supreme Court argument in United States v. Arizona has focused almost entirely on the issue of illegal immigration. But the most important issue in the case is not immigration policy or even the specifics of whether some or all of Arizona’s immigration law is preempted by federal law. The most profound impact of this case will likely be on the constitutional balance of power between the states and the federal government, an issue that