In evaluating potential nominees to the Supreme Court, Republican presidents should seriously consider state supreme court justices. Their independence gives a clearer indication of how they would behave if appointed to the high court.
Category: Advice for Trump
Advice for Trump
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Reagan vs. Trump on the Constitution, Freedom, and Conservative Statesmanship
The conservative should not act the ideologue in order to attack the demagogue, because the simplistic thinking of the ideologue is just as hostile to true statesmanship as the angry passions of the demagogue.
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Dear Mr. Trump: If You Want to Make America Great Again, You’ve Got to Start with Marriage
If you want to make America great again, you cannot afford to ignore the role stable marriage plays in motivating our labor force and in our nation’s economic growth as a whole.
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Constitution 101: A Lesson for Donald Trump
The American Founders understood that good government requires judicious “rigging.” Such rigging is only “crooked” if one wrongly assumes that consent alone is a sufficient condition for justice.