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How Trump Is Plotting to Turn the Supreme Court Red
Whatever openings Trump may be in a position to fill in the future, however, will be much more challenging. Ginsburg, 83, is among the...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Inside Trump’s strategy to remodel the Supreme Court
“With each passing disappointment, people want to make sure this is not just someone who looks conservative, but is virtually guaranteed...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Nuclear Option: Misplaced Conservative Outrage
Harry Reid's recent “nuclear” detonation left many conservatives in high dudgeon over "tyranny of the majority." I recently argued that...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
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...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Appearance on C-SPAN to talk about "Dumbing Down the Courts," applying economics to unders
The video that runs about an hour is available here. The C-SPAN intro is not completely accurate so you might want to skip the first 30...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
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...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
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...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Obama's Pick: High Risk, Low Reward
The announcement that Justice Souter will be stepping down at the end of the term, while not a total shock, certainly focuses the attention
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022


CFJ Report: Who’s Out of the Mainstream?
Ever since Judge Samuel Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court, the Committee for Justice has been hammering away on the theme that it is
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
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