Does the rule of law have a future? Is law objective, or just the preferences of those in power?

I posted a few days ago about my essay on OnlySky, but now I can include the OnlySky account as well. onlys.ky/does-the-rul...

Does the rule of law have a future? Is law objective, or just the preferences of those in power?

Is there a future for the rule of law? My column for OnlySky.

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Bruce Ledewitz: How to stop a president from violating the Constitution without a national injunction One of President Trump’s first acts upon assuming office was to issue an executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship — the principle...

Trump v CASA was rightly decided and is no threat. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: The new 'postliberals' like Trump but not the Declaration of Independence A year ago, on the Fourth of July, my country was an idea — the idea embodied in the Declaration of Independence. The colonists did not fight for...

My country diminished. My Fourth of July reflection responding to CC Pecknold.

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Bruce Ledewitz: If Lincoln could do it, Trump can do it, but he shouldn't The late, great constitutionalist Charles Black used to ask his law school students why Abraham Lincoln did not ask the U.S. Supreme Court for an injunction...

President Trump's actions in LA were lawful. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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The future of evil Secular culture needs its own understanding of what shapes our character.

OnlySky published my essay, The Future of Evil, today.

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Bruce Ledewitz: Donald Trump’s Iranian mistake Now that there is (as I write) a ceasefire, we can see the serious mistake President Donald made with regard to Iran. His mistake was not that he joined...

Donald Trump's Iranian Mistake. No, not the bombing. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: Why the Democrats can't defeat Donald Trump What next for the Democrats? It should be easy for the Democrats to take back power from the Republicans. Donald Trump’s presidency thus far...

Why the Democrats Cannot Defeat Trump. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: First They Came for Harvard. They'll come for us. Not many people have sympathy for Harvard University in its fight with President Donald Trump. Harvard is rich — with an endowment of more than $50...

First They Came for Harvard. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
#firsttheycameforharvard

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Nobody could afford to see it.

Bruce Ledewitz: An non-believer explains why Catholic conservatives never understood Pope Francis In a New York Times story about the late Pope Francis’s relationship with Catholic conservatives, Michael Hichborn, president of the traditionalist...

Catholic conservatives never understood Pope Francis. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: The conservative legal movement does not defend the Constitution n the movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Colonel Nicholson, played by Alec Guinness, leads captured British POWs in building a splendid...

The Tragedy of the Federalist Society. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: Republicans, get rid of the filibuster but force Trump to act legally We have just witnessed the absurd spectacle of Democrats in the U.S. Senate conducting an unjustified filibuster against a Republican appropriations bill...

Republicans, get rid of the filibuster. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: A Democratic people’s platform that could defeat Donald Trump The Democratic Party — my party — must be the most inept political organization in history. The first six weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency...

The Democrats need a platform. Here are three items to put in it. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Bruce Ledewitz: The Supreme Court will step up and Trump will back down Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has been acting like a king in ways that either violate the Constitution under existing law or would do so if anyone...

The Justices will step up and Trump will back down. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Ross Douthat wants you to believe in God The orderly universe is not the pro-God argument Douthat thinks it is.

Ross Douthat wants you to believe in God. My column today in OnlySky. onlys.ky/ross-douthat...

Bruce Ledewitz: It’s time to stop presidents from abusing the power to pardon Bill Clinton was accused of selling a pardon. Joe Biden tried to put a legal cocoon around his family. Donald Trump granted clemency to police assaulters...

Time to Amend the Pardon Power. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral A secular civilization, like any civilization, will need a story about a beneficent universe and a hopeful future.

My column today at OnlySky: Lessons for a Future Atheist President from Jimmy Carter's Funeral. onlys.ky/the-last-sta...

Bruce ledewitz: Donald Trump's an autocrat, but he succeeded an autocrat Observers on the left are worried that under President Donald Trump, America will “sleepwalk” into autocracy. I have news: we already live...

We already live in a Presidential autocracy and have done for years. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

The poor you will always have with you...

What David Brooks's search for God can teach secularists Brooks's essay is the kind that often exasperates nonbelievers. But is there something of value to secular civilization in his God-optional conclusions?

My response to David Brooks's search for God in @onlyskymedia
.
#secularistsearchforgod
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Bruce Ledewitz: Israel is now a politically partisan issue Joe Biden may be the last pro-Israel Democrat elected President. But he won’t be the last Democrat elected President. What does the future hold now...

The 2024 Presidential campaign made Israel a partisan issue. Now what does the future hold? My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
#Israelapartisanissue
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Bruce Ledewitz: Make the Democrats great again The Democrats, still shocked by Trump’s victory and their many other election losses, have not begun to think about becoming the dominant American...

The future of the Democratic Party lies in the farm belt. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Trump floats idea of US reclaiming Panama Canal: 'Foolishly gave it away' President-elect Trump implied Saturday he may demand U.S. ownership of the Panama Canal, claiming the U.S. is being ripped off by unfair tolls.

Oh, great. Just in time for Christmas--Jingo Bells, Jingo Bells.
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"House Democrats have successfully stopped the billionaire boys club, which wanted a $4 trillion blank check by suspending the debt ceiling.” Representative Hakeem Jeffries here demonstrates that Dems can be as fake as R's. The debt ceiling is about paying bills incurred. Not about spending limits.

The nation's debt limit serves no purpose. It should be eliminated | Bruce Ledewitz • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Invoking the debt limit keeps the government from paying bills we already owe.

Maybe Donald is OK after all. penncapital-star.com/commentary/t...

Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey | CNN Business President-elect Donald Trump is escalating his legal campaign against media outlets by suing renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register newspaper and its parent company...

Boy, were we critics wrong to think that Donald Trump
would be a threat to democracy. "Constitutional conservatives" were lunatics to vote for this man. He has every instinct of a dictator and no respect for free speech. He's not even President yet. www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/m...

With a jug of molasses and green, young boughs,

And the little New Year, the weakling one,

Can lie outdoors in the noonday sun,

Blowing the fluff from a turkey-wing

At skies already haunted with Spring —

Oh Georgia . . . Georgia . . .

Benet

Bruce Ledewitz: Donald Trump is inheriting a stronger country thanks to Joe Biden Every Thanksgiving, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s conservative brother writes her column. This year, he crowed about Donald Trump’s...

What big mess? Joe is leaving the country in good shape. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

The rehabilitation of truth You cannot build a secular civilization into the future without a kind of faith.

The Rehabilitation of Truth. My column today on OnlySky.
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