Constitution

A reminder, from Mark Fitzgibbons, that we are a nation of laws, and how the supposed guardian of the laws -- our government -- increasingly treats those laws with contempt.

The Supreme Court issued a batch of opinions this week, and one of them, at least, stopped an Obama initiative dead in its tracks:

The Senate will take up Sen Dianne Feinstien's bill to expand federal watch lists, and use those lists to ban people on them from purchasing firearms.

Jeffrey Tucker offers an antidote, of sorts, to the anxiety and emotionalism surrounding the presidential race.

The FBI wants Apple to help it break into the phone used by the terrorists in the San Bernardino shooting. Apple said no. So the FBI got a court to force it to comply. Apple says it will appeal, citing a host of privacy issues it says are too big to ignore.

Some Senate Republicans -- at least those who are members of the Judiciary committee -- have decided to do nothing to advance a Supreme Court

That there will be a huge fight over the next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court is beyond question. But it is somewhat stunning to see Mr. Obama's partisans assert not only that he has the "right" to nominate someone to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Scalia's untimely death, but also that the Senate must obediently confirm that nominee.