Plus: How MAGA Conservatives Are Reshaping the Republican Party
May 16 2022
Good morning from Washington, where a large, sometimes raucous group of pro-abortion protesters rallied Saturday and marched to the Supreme Court Building, where they confronted pro-life activists. We have related reports from Virginia Allen, Doug Blair, and Lauren Evans. On the podcast, Rob Bluey explores what the future holds for MAGA conservatives. Plus: Richard Reinsch on the question of constitutional originalism; Richard Stern on President Biden’s proposed corporate bailout; and more of your letters on ending abortion on demand. On this date in 1868, the Senate finds President Andrew Johnson not guilty of committing “high crimes and misdemeanors,” foreshadowing his full acquittal in the ongoing trial 10 days later.
J.D. Vance’s victory in Ohio’s GOP primary put the anti-establishment candidate one step closer to the U.S. Senate. Henry Olsen, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, discusses the implications.
The immediate triggers for Harvard legal scholar Adrian Vermeule's departure from originalism are the Supreme Court’s decisions in Obergefell v. Hodges and Bostock v. Clayton.
Congress is considering a $48 billion corporate bailout disguised as COVID-19 spending that takes more of your money and gives it to President Biden’s chosen few.
When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous.
