Andrew C. McCarthy

Are America’s interests truly being served in the president’s diplomatic push?

Even if the claims are true, it doesn’t make it less petty to pursue a criminal investigation against him.

He is technically adhering to Congress’s rules for the Federal Reserve, regardless of whether his motives are pure.

It was certain that his release would be short-lived.

The president is still playing with fire.

This is a significant victory for the president.

The DOJ missive is not a legal argument. It is pure political intimidation.

While Congress may override state election regulations, the president has no such power.

The Justice Department could appeal the ruling, but doing so would be foolish.

This is a case that was dead and buried.

If there were a criminal offense that fit, Gabbard and Trump would cite it, rather than chanting ‘treason.

Prepare for more ousters of interim appointees.

There’s probably no prosecutable federal case, since the statute of limitations has expired.

It is baffling that Trump officials could think it helpful to the president to revisit this ancient history.

The president is in this mess because he has turned his Justice Department into a component of his political operation.

It’s well established that the Trump-Russia hoax was concocted to harm Trump, but Ratcliffe’s move is a prosecutorial dead end.

That’s not a license for Trump to violate the law. It’s a call to judicial restraint unless and until he does.

The president’s AEA invocation is surely headed to the Supreme Court yet again.

The deal with Bukele comes with significant strings attached, it turns out.

The illegal aliens should bear the burden of a problem of their own making.

High-minded international commitments are easy to make; enforcement is a different story.

It appears that the administration should be able to deport Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, but it’s shooting itself in the foot.

The facility is a major complication.

Regardless of whether he orders a strike, we can be confident there will be no new congressional vote on the use of military force.

The narrow mission would be to destroy Iran’s nuclear program and leave the rest of the fighting in Israel’s very capable hands.

His weekend posts about Iran and Israel avoid reality.

The Federal Circuit should have suspended the tariffs while the litigation goes forward.

And even if he is convicted, the Trump administration’s core problem remains: He cannot lawfully be deported to El Salvador unless a 2019 order is reversed.

The explicit purpose of the rioting and mayhem is to thwart the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

The president may not be insulated from any judicial review of his motivations.