John Roberts

January 12, 2016 | |

FDD Files Amicus Brief in Support of Victims of Iranian Terrorism for Supreme Court Case

Washington, DC —The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has filed a ‘friend of the court’...

June 15, 2011 |

A Quick Way Forward After Boumediene

Either Congress reasserts itself, or terror-friendly bedlam ensues.

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

The 9/11 Six: An Opportunity for Senator McCain

Whether capital military commissions really happen will be decided in November.

August 19, 2010 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Will the Turkish Flotilla Group Be Named as Terrorists?

It's not every day that House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ed Royce (R-CA), the ranking member of terrorism subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, agree...

August 5, 2010 | Jonathan Schanzer

Do Gaza Flotillas Provide Material Support to Hamas?

Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy recently argued at National Review Online that the federal government has reason to investigate Rashid Khalidi, an activist Middle Eastern studies professo...

July 25, 2008 | National Review Online

Avoiding ‘CSI Kandahar’

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July 2, 2008 |

Military Commissions: Going … going … gone

No, it ain’t over yet, but the fat lady is clearing her throat.  Reuters reports that federal juges in the District of Columbia are organizing themselves to deal with the floo...

July 13, 2007 |

The ACLU Loses in Court

The American Civil Liberties Union's Steven Shapiro is one of the best lawyers in the United States. Still, he was flat wrong when he told the New York Times that a federal appeals court&#03...

January 1, 2007 | Andrew McCarthy The New Criterion

Is The Nation State Threatened?

 “Is the Nation State Threatened?” This question, though apt, may fail to convey how dire the threat to sovereignty truly is. It might be better to ask, “Is the Nation Stat...

September 15, 2006 | The New Criterion

The New Juristocracy

From the Founding right up until the still-quaking bombshell of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, issued at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, the primary imperative of national government...

November 13, 2005 |

Restoring Law & Order

The Senate finally acts to eject al Qaeda from our courts.