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Littwin: Kavanaugh had a point. What goes around may well come...

The Senate has voted. Brett Kavanaugh has been narrowly confirmed. In a normal time, that would be the end of the story, or at...

Littwin: Justice Kennedy retires and now we wonder whether Roe v....

You can mark this date on your calendar. A calamity is now upon us. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the last conservative on a 5-4 Supreme Court...

Littwin: The death penalty conversation in Colorado just grew a lot...

It was a coincidence, but hardly a happy one, that a pair of prominent Coloradans made news this week concerning the death penalty. In...

Wiretap: Who gets the blame for the Trump/Ryancare failure? A better...

Who's to blame for the failure-beyond-failure that was Trump/Ryancare and the inability to even get the bill to the floor of the House for...

Littwin: Democrats want a fight on Gorsuch, but first they have...

Let's call it Mr. Gorsuch goes to Washington. And in ordinary times, there would be no question how the movie ends. Jimmy Stewart gets the...

Trump taps conservative Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court

About a month ago, Judge Neil Gorsuch was leading a federal panel that was hearing an appeal by the City of Denver related to...

Legal experts: The GOP Senate is trying to have cake and...

The debate over the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia has raged for weeks now. The right insists there should be no nominee...

Does Cory Gardner need a civics lesson on court appointments?

Sen. Cory Gardner was just offered something most millennials would kill for: free college. Taking inspiration from the late Harper Lee's 1966 offer to help...

Littwin: Why Obama’s SCOTUS nominee threatens the GOP

You can make the argument that by nominating an oldish, moderate, well-respected judge to the Supreme Court that Barack Obama has outsmarted the Republicans,...