The Kavanaugh Hearings: When Justice Was On Trial

The Kavanaugh Hearings: When Justice Was On Trial

Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino, Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2019)   More than any other country, the United States is rooted in ideals. Americans share no common ethnicity or religion, and increasingly no common language. The nation is divided into … Read more

Why Not Make Roe v. Wade a Litmus Test?

Why Not Make Roe v. Wade a Litmus Test?

With the choice of Brett Kavanaugh as candidate for Supreme Court Justice, the confirmation hearings will soon begin with a now familiar ritual of evading Roe v. Wade. Liberals will ask the nominee to define himself on the infamous 1973 decision that liberalized abortion. He will find ways of evading the question … Read more