Supreme court

December 16, 2021 | John Hardie |

Biden Administration Targets Corruption in Ukraine’s Judiciary

During last week’s Summit for Democracy, the Biden administration imposed sanctions against Oleksandr Tupytskyi, chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU), and Andriy Portnov, a top aide to...

January 1, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Nikki Haley, all-American

She’s also a loyal and principled neo-Trumpian, which makes some people angry

May 6, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

Money Laundering For The Mullahs

The Islamic Republic of Iran has mounted a full court press to persuade the global financial community to overlook its long rap sheet of financial crimes. In recent weeks, two of the Islamic Repu...

October 1, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

Supreme Court, Congress Take on Iran Terrorism Judgments

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a dispute over $1.75 billion in terrorism-related judgments against Iran while lawmakers moved to keep congressionally-imposed sanctions on the country u...

May 6, 2013 |

The Right to a Fair Trial Trumps the Right to the Niqab

If human beings were truth-telling robots, we would not be discussing the issue of whether a niqab-covered Muslim woman should be permitted to testify in Canadian court: The very spectacle of cou...

September 17, 2012 |

Do Americans Dare Trust Egypt’s President Morsi?

The dramatic attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo capped off a summer in which Egypt has already seen its greatest political developments in 150 years. The first democratic elections since 1950 b...

January 20, 2012 |

Candidates and Combatants

Monday night’s debate featured an exchange between Mitt Romney a...

October 12, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber who tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and kill its 292 passengers and crew on Chr...

June 14, 2011 | Human Events

FISA Reform Debacle in the Making?

Collecting intelligence and connecting dots isn’t just good policy.  It’s good politics.  The reform of FISA -- the ill-conceived, outdated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May National Review Online |

State of the SOTU

Last night’s State of the Union struck me as less the speech of a lame duck than the speech of a candidate. That’s not to say it was a great speech. Candidates’ speeches seldom...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

End the Stealth Government

"FISA reform" must mean less FISA Court.

January 7, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Gitmo Detainee Transferred to Algeria

The Department of Defense announced the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria on Thursday. The detainee, Saiid Farhi (also known as Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed in US government documents), ha...

December 11, 2010 | National Review Online

Gitmo Follies

Attorney General Eric Holder is dismayed over Congress’s refusal to cough up funds that would allow the Obama administration to close down Guantanamo Bay and transfer the 170 fire-breathing...

August 13, 2008 | National Review Online

Re: Executions & Consuls

Derb, your correspondents make some great points. FWIW, I weighed in on the late and unlamented Medellin about a year ago in Human Events, when, in a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling, Chief Justice Rober...

July 25, 2008 | National Review Online |

Speaking of Miranda Warnings for the Enemy …

I have an article on the homepage this morning about Attorney General Mukasey's effort to prevent the Supreme Court's disastrous Boumediene decision from turning the military battlefiel...

July 23, 2008 | National Review Online

Suspend the Writ

For the protection of our troops on the battlefield and the security of all Americans, Congress needs, right now, to take action to reverse Boumediene v....

July 15, 2008 | National Review Online |

On Combatant Detainee al-Marri, the Fourth Circuit Splits the Baby

About a year ago, I wrote here on NRO about a divided (2-1) panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that Ali Saleh Kalah al-Marri, an alleged terrorist operative from Qatar...

August 7, 2007 |

FISA: Don’t Mend It, End It

The Left's deafening silence won't obscure that judges shouldn't be managing our national security.

September 20, 2005 | American Legion Magazine

Revolutionary Déjà Vu

By: Paul Crespo. Hugo Chavez quotes Fidel Castro when asked what is on the horizon for Venezuela: “A new wave will arrive in Latin America, but in a different form.”...

February 14, 2005 |

Lynne Stewart & Me; Justice and Sadness

Justice and sadness.