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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
The...
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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
The...
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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
The...
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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
The...
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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often enough.
The...
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If Senate Republicans don’t want the majority, they are doing everything exactly right
The United States courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated, but for conservative supporters of President Trump most concerned with the judiciary — and they are legion — its scorecard doesn’t change often...
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Underrated Presidents, Good Times
Beyond his legislative failures, despite his futile feuds with professional athletes, GOP senators and members of his own Cabinet, in the face of feeble poll numbers and relentless condemnation from prestigious commentators, President Trump could yet preside over four dynamic years of peace, prosperity and progress.
Those who dismiss this optimistic proposition...
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When Political Correctness Tops Personal Decency
The New York Times recently reported on allegations of shameless sexual harassment by Oscar-winning movie mogul Harvey Weinstein from dozens of young women, with expensive settlements paid out to at least eight of them.
In his bizarre response, Weinstein acknowledged that he “caused a lot of pain” and planned to temporarily step back from corporate...
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The Nobel Prize Encourages a Dangerous Fantasy
In another inane choice for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected an organization known as ICAN—the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
The idea of “abolishing” nuclear weapons is absurd, of course: if the world enacted the restrictive treaties proposed by the campaign, then decent, law-abiding...
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The Vegas Killer’s Obvious Addiction
While motives behind the Las Vegas massacre still remained very much in doubt, liberal pundits rushed out to blame the killer’s fascination with firearms for pushing an ordinary man to mass murder.
Actually, Stephen Paddock nursed another obsession far longer, and far more intensively, than he ever indulged an interest in guns—and that dangerous...
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The Greatest Libel Since the Blood Libel
The most infamous libel in history is the one known as the Blood Libel. This was the medieval lie leveled at Jews in some European countries that accused the Jews of killing Christian children to use their blood to make Passover matzo. As the author of a book on the history of anti-Semitism (“Why the […]
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“Zero Sum Game” Distorts Thinking on Tax Cut, Foreign Affairs
As Congress debates immediate, substantial cuts in federal tax rates, liberal opponents invoke the discredited concept of a “zero sum game”—the idea that if one citizen gains, then another must lose, because they believe that one individual’s good fortune must always mean someone else’s misfortune.
This thinking ignores the way economic...
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You Can’t Advance Justice by Dishonoring the Flag
When prominent athletes refuse to stand for the national anthem, their defenders insist they’re not dishonoring the flag, but pushing the nation toward social justice.
But how can you possibly advance your cause with public gestures that most Americans find irritating and offensive?
And what milestone must society reach to convince those athlete activists...
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Restoring a Sense of Purpose
The Jewish high holy day season culminates in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, this year on September 30th, and brings patterns of behavior that often confuse and mystify our neighbors.
Why do so many nominally irreligious, unaffiliated people flock to long, demanding services on this solemn day of fasting and prayer? British scholar Chaim Bermant offered one...
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Who’s Divisive — the President or the Players?
Because the left dominates the news media, the entertainment media and academia, Americans are swimming — actually, drowning — in an ocean of lies. Here are a few examples: America is racist. America oppresses its minorities. America oppresses women. Universities have a culture of rape. There are more than two genders. All cultures are morally...
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