A Moment of Judicial Restraint
"By exercising restraint, the MTSC upheld the rule of law and the separation of powers, core principles of truly limited government." The following has been adapted from an excerpt of the Frontier Weekly Newsletter…
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Mexico’s Judicial Reform 2.0: Democratic Accountability or Institutional Centralization?
Executive Summary Mexico’s 2026 constitutional amendments concerning judicial elections represent far more than a technical correction to the Judicial Reform enacted in 2024. While government officials have framed the…
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice proposes judicial candidate speech reform
On May 5, I wrote how the North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct (CJC), as enforced by the Judicial Standards Commission, overly restricts the speech of judges and judicial candidates. That not only limits their free speech…
Let judicial candidates speak
Judicial elections are important, and voters need information to make correct decisions North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls has faced attempts to silence her speech on public issues There can be a balance…
Judicial Misadventure
"Time and again, the Court has stepped beyond its constitutional role and instead engaged in activities reserved to the more democratic branches of government: the legislature and the executive branch." The…
A Rebuke To Judicial Overreach And A Win For The Constitution
When unelected judges attempt to substitute their judgment for that of a duly elected president on matters of national security, the Constitution demands correction. It got one.In a decisive ruling, a federal appeals court…
Jackson minimizes harms of judicial activism targeting executive power
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about an interesting speech from the US Supreme Court’s newest member. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ran a not-so-subtle defense of leftists’ judicial coup against…
The re-emergence of legislative history in judicial decisions
Adam White writes about a potential shift in the American judiciary. Does legislative history have a future in judicial opinions? For the first time in a long time, it seems so. For decades, the rise of textualism was…
Judicial Deference Reform
Introduction No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment. James Madison, Federalist No. 10 There can be no liberty … if the power of judging, be not separated from…
Judicial insurrectionists’ impact on Trump’s second term
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about the continuing role of rogue judges. When Democrats’ lawfare failed to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, the party of “democracy” turned to the last available lever of…
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