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In 1928, Undersecretary of State William R. Castle Jr. wrote about “by far the most important Roman Catholic in this country”: “Obviously a man of great power and authority,” he was...

The following essay is adapted from a commencement address given at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida, on May 12, 2024. I have attended many law school...

The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that...

The Supreme Court’s June reversal of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could mightily influence the coming midterm elections. Many Democrats hope so. To help...

Today, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled.” Almost...

Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatnessby charles r. keslerencounter, 488 pages, $34.99 Speaking to a Baltimore audience in 1864, Abraham Lincoln made...

On June 28, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm. It takes four justices’ votes to grant review. In Grimm there...

After receiving more than 2,500 pages of briefing and after more than a half-year of post-argument cogitation, the Court has emitted a wisp of a decision that leaves religious...

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will decide Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs is a Mississippi abortion case that pro-lifers have long hoped—and pro-choicers long feared—that...

When Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in last October as a Supreme Court justice, many hoped and others feared that the fuse was lit on Roe v. Wade. Many...

On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court held that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s ban on workplace discrimination on the basis of sex proscribed not just differential treatment of...

It is finally settled that Joseph Biden will become president of the United States on January 20 at about noon. His party, in its presidential platform, has promised to...

Almost four years ago I wrote in these pages about a pro-choice legal brief signed by 281 American historians and submitted by New York University law professor Sylvia Law...

The history books tell us that Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who shot and killed Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914 at Sarajevo, started World War I by providing...

Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental effects is, at least according to Dr. Koop, inconclusive. I am referring...