As the Supreme Court has grown more politicized in the last century, contentious confirmation hearings have increasingly become the norm for Supreme Court nominations. As a result, calls for term limits on its members have emerged in recent decades. While the dysfunction within the confirmation process should certainly raise concerns, ending life tenure for the...
Twenty-four years after then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-De.) declared that the U.S. Senate should no longer proceed with Supreme Court nominations during presidential election years, Republicans successfully used that precedent to block former President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Forcing the Democrats to taste their own medicine not only saved the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin...
The recent weeks have seen widespread protests regarding the latest school shootings and the issue of gun violence. First was the National Walkout Day on March 14, which featured numerous student walkout rallies on multiple college campuses and public school districts, including the district where I attended high school in Georgia. Next was the so-called...
Secular ideas have wrought devastating consequences upon colleges that are easy to see. Yet there are students even here at Hillsdale who want our school to follow the recent secular trends of our culture. One of these students, Blake Estep, last semester wrote an op-ed titled “The Importance of Identity, Why Hillsdale College Should Consider...
In 2008, Barack Obama’s promise of “hope and change” attracted a diverse coalition that won him the White House. Yet the Democratic Party’s tactics of appealing to ethnic minority voters to maintain its slowly diminishing majorities turned against them as they alienated other important voting blocs. As Democrats continued losing down-ballot races, their strategy took...