Sometime very soon, one hopes, the Biden administration will attempt to explain to the American people what they think our fighters shot down over Lake Huron and northern Canada and off Alaska, be they balloons or drones or something somewhat stranger. If that happens, we will take a meaningful step toward solving a longstanding, conspiracy-shadowed […]
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Some wondered whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s bitter confirmation fight would radicalize him in a rightward direction, as Justice Thomas’s did. Instead, he is now the court’s median justice, slightly to the right of Chief Justice John Roberts — with whom he voted 98 percent of the time last term — and basically a more conservative […]
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President Biden has been conspicuously quiet on the topic of the Supreme Court. Even as there’s an active debate about what to do about a court that has too often exceeded the bounds of its authority, he has avoided regular criticism of it. His restraint in discussing the court is true in general, and it’s […]
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