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My Turn: Richard A. Arenberg: Moving Toward Politicized Courts?

As the judiciary is called upon to referee the balance of powers, will Americans be able to trust courts that become rigidly polarized and d

Richard A. Arenberg: Courts Get More Conservative, Less Diverse

President Donald Trump attacks what he calls the “witch hunt” by special counsel Robert Mueller virtually every day now. Included in his...

Can the President Do as He Pleases?

Former Congressman John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, a skillful master of the arcane rules,...

Republicans Have Duty to Vote on Justice

Republican senators will apparently reject any nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court selected by President Barack Obama. This is a bald-faced...

GOP Gains Little Attacking Obamacare

Andy Warhol famously asked, “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” Last month, the Republican House of...

Same old game of chicken

British philosopher Bertrand Russell once described the “game of chicken” as “a sport … practiced by some youthful degenerates.” While I...

Nuclear Option May Come Back to Haunt Democrats

Last month, the U.S. Senate defeated a bill that would have approved construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which is...

One Man’s Filibuster is Another Man’s Craven Politics

Providence Journal We have become accustomed in recent years to thinking of filibusters in the Senate only as an obstructionist tactic...