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Senate Democrats sabotaged the Supreme Court nomination process, not Mitch McConnell.

Critics of television often complain that the medium rarely provides context. Frontline's “Supreme Revenge” is steeped and then marinated in it.

President Trump's long-expected firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions may be a prelude to an outrageous, blatant political crime that could make the Watergate scandal of the 1970s pale in comparison.

The allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have generated a revisiting of the 1991 confirmation hearings on Clarence Thomas, who reached the court by overcoming different charges of sexual misconduct raised against him.

Democrats have manipulated Kavanaugh confirmation into a circus that future Supreme Court nominees will be loathe to face.

Democrats are trying to use the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings to stimulate their base, says Cal Thomas.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh's extensive record requires serious examination and raises lots of questions. Here are some important ones he needs to answer.

Progressives are terrified that the  Supreme Court might start doing its job, says Jonah Goldberg.

Concentrated power inevitably leads to political backlash, says Jonah Goldberg.

Justice Clarence Thomas is seldom discussed without mention of his unusual silence. Appointed in 1991, he has spoken fewer than three words, on average, per

Donald Trump may be making the same mistake Richard Nixon did in thinking he can outfox the FBI and DOJ, says Jules Witcover.

Donald Trump's "Russia thing" may be Watergate deja vu, says Jules Witcover.

The cloud of suspicion over Russian interference in the American presidential election has widened, with new demands from congressional Republicans as well as Democrats for a special counsel's investigation, akin to the Watergate inquiry that forced the 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon.

Whenever there is a Supreme Court vacancy, we hear the same arguments every time, says Jonah Goldberg.

Sally Yates' stand against Donald Trump's unconstitutional immigration ban will be remembered as a DOJ rebuke of presidential power. 

Democrats have run out of ideas, even bad ones, and have nothing left but name-calling and protests, says Cal Thomas.

On stage at its Annapolis venue through Jan. 28, Colonial Players is presenting playwright and novelist Anthony Giardina's reflective, penetrating 2014 drama, "The City of Conversation." The show, which touches the past 30 years including three political administrations , opened only a week before the inauguration of President Donald Trump – closing what many have called the most contentious campaign in decades.

I'm sympathetic to some charges that the conservative movement has failed, but the notion that conservatives haven't conserved anything suffers from a number of confusions. Exhibit A: Phyllis Schlafly.

When the president, a former teacher of constitutional law, says, "the Constitution is pretty clear" about the need for hearings on his pick, he's not telling the truth. He's playing politics. The same goes for all the Republican senators who say the Constitution is clear that they don't have to hold hearings if they don't want to. The simple fact is that the Constitution is silent. And where the Constitution is silent, politics is supreme.

Merrick Garland is not a liberal in the same way President Obama and most Senate Democrats are moderates.

Sayed Farook, one of the killers in the San Bernardino shootout last December, had an iPhone, and FBI investigators want the information he had stored on it. One week ago, the FBI obtained a court order requiring Apple to help them break into his phone. The next day, Apple said that the FBI wanted them to build an entirely new version of its operating system. Apple CEO Tim Cook argued that complying with the FBI's request would "undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government means to

If President Obama really does want to reduce the meanness in politics, he could leave the next Supreme Court appointment up to his successor or appoint a conservative during the Senate recess who would serve only until the end of the following session. That would preserve the power balance on the court for the time being.

GOP takes a page from the Dem's playbook on judicial appointments

Obama's firing of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki follows a long history of presidential dismissals.

Today's conservative judges embrace activism, but Bork preached restraint