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Hugh Hewitt
Professor Hugh Hewitt is a lawyer, law professor and broadcast journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon. Professor Hewitt has been a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network, and MSNBC, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. Hewitt writes daily for his blog, HughHewitt.com, which is among the most visited political blogs in the U.S. He is also a weekly columnist for The Washington Examiner and Townhall.com.
Writer's WebsiteIt’s the Supreme Court, stupid
Of course I am voting for Donald Trump. You should be too if you are a conservative. Let me break this down into three arguments, the first of which is Trump’s trump card on the #NeverTrumpers.
If Hillary Clinton wins, the Left gavels in a solid, lasting, almost certainly permanent majority on the Supreme Court. Every political issue has a theoretical path...
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The Great Hillary Whitewash
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Listening to President Bill Clinton speak at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, the night Hillary was formally nominated by the Democrats, one might be forgiven for wondering about whom he was speaking. In attempting to cast Hillary as the great love of his life, the indispensable “change agent,” the woman...
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Winners and losers in Cleveland
The Baja 500 GOP Convention in Cleveland went off road early and stayed there, and if at times it felt like Yosemite Sam was driving and Wile E. Coyote co-piloting, in the end Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and his principal spokesman, Sean Spicer, grabbed the wheel and got over the finish line in one piece and with spectacular ratings. So...
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Trump makes a governing choice
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the friend of all and enemy to none in the conservative movement and the broader GOP. He is smart, experienced and — crucial in this cycle — affable and amiable, the two descriptors least used in 2016 and most needed in the country right now.
Pence served a dozen years in Congress, and I got to know him on the radio and then at a...
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Unanswered Questions on Hillary’s Email Scandal
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Unfortunately for the country and the rule of law, FBI Director Comey’s public remarks at the FBI and testimony before Congress last week raised many more questions than they answered about Hillary Clinton’s extremely careless use of private email, possession of classified information, and exchange of sensitive information...
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Reversing the spiral
A week from today I’ll be back in #TheLand where the debris from the Cavs championship parade will still be visible in a few corners. It was just June 22 when 1.3 million residents of Northeastern Ohio crammed into downtown to celebrate the region’s first championship since 1964 and its first NBA crown ever. The greatest comeback in hoops history...
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Is Trump’s Election America’s Brexit?
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
The impossible is becoming increasingly probable. In spite of his Twitter tirades, boorish behavior and propensity for prevarication, Donald Trump is, according to CBS News and Quinnipiac University polling, almost even with Hillary Clinton both nationally and in the must-win states of Florida, Colorado and North Carolina. How is...
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What we know about Clinton’s server
The FBI interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for many hours on Saturday morning.
On Saturday afternoon CNN Senior Producer Teddy Davis tweeted “Sources tell CNN’s Evan Perez: expectation is that there will be announcement of no charges in Clinton email probe w/in next two weeks or so”.
After I — and perhaps others — pointed...
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Cleveland wins at last
There are a number of ways one can drive from Warren, Ohio, to Cleveland, and their merits are debated endlessly among the North Eastern Ohio folks (“NEOs we are called these days) from the Mahoning Valley. I have always favored taking Route 422. Others prefer the turnpike, a contrarian few insist that Route 5 to 14 is the best bet.
Mostly these debates...
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GOP’s Cleveland Message to Trump: You’re Fired
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
In less than a month, the GOP will choose its nominee in Cleveland, a city reveling in its first major sports championship since 1964. Until the Cleveland Browns season begins, Cleveland is for winners. Donald Trump has promised to make America great again, but is Trump capable of delivering a win for the GOP and the country? ...
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Responsible citizens have to choose
It is a binary choice — that is obvious at least to every active duty member of the American military.
Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be their commander in chief.
Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will select the secretary of defense.
Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will select the secretaries of the Army, Air Force and Navy, the...
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When it comes to the Clintons, always follow the money
To former President Bill Clinton’s and former senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s long, long list of scandal, impropriety and simple embarrassment add two new entries: the curious cases of Rajiv Fernando and Laureate University.
Fernando appears to be a simple Clinton enthusiast who raised and contributed large sums to Clinton campaigns...
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Ghosting for Donald, The Trump Tower Chats, No. 1
The setting: Donald Trump’s Office, Trump Tower. Monday, June 6, 2016. 4 PM EST.
Donald Trump is seated behind his desk. A single camera feeds the shot to all networks that want to carry it. They all want to carry it.
“Good afternoon. I, of course, am Donald Trump, and this is my office in Manhattan’s most spectacular high rise, the Trump...
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How Obama’s Lawlessness Fuels Trump’s
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
As the Obama presidency draws to a close, it’s clear the president will more conspicuously ignore our constitutional system and instead rely exclusively on raw executive authority to radically change the country and cement his legacy as the radical-in-chief. That this approach further erodes our constitutional structure of...
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How Trump can quiet conservative angst
With 23 weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump — the unlikeliest, most unconventional nominee of a major party in modern times — faces two challenges.
The first is to rally the 30 percent of the GOP faithful who remain at least reluctant to rally to his banner; the second is to lower his unfavorable ratings among the general electorate. (Gallup’s...
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Will you find a new voice?
The following is a condensed version of the commencement address I delivered on May 14 at Ashland University.
It is a high honor to be invited to your big day. My belief is that almost everyone who has walked across a stage and received a degree, whether high school, college or graduate school, remembers something of that day, their excitement, their hopes and...
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