The Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act would free state and local government from court orders that are unnecessary to protect rights, yet prevent states and localities from adopting to the lessons of experience and changing priorities.

The sensible course of action in the face of uncertainty is to enact the Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act and to monitor its outcomes.

The Regulatory Accountability Act is an effort to channel the discretion and improve the performance of the modern administrative state.

Hate crime laws ultimately force courts into making rulings like this one, because they must enter a domain for which they are ill-equipped and ill-suited.

The prospect of an attack on the Supreme Court and other institutions of government is sobering. The Continuity of Government Commission has identified recommendations to ensure that the presidential succession system functions to produce a legitimate president in a timely fashion and that Congress can continue to operate even shortly after a catastrophic terrorist attack.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently rebuffed environmentalists in their bid to get the judiciary to intervene in the global-warming controversy by invoking the old common law of nuisance, as though global warming could be solved through an injunction.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich knows how to press the Left's soft spots. Even as he fades from the front of the Republican presidential pack, he deserves credit for attacking the judiciary's seizure of power over some of society's most important issues. Choosing new Supreme Court justices will be one...

The Labor Board's recent attack on Boeing poses a threat to state commerce, and 16 states have responded by filing a brief opposing the NLRB's effort. The states' opposition to such actions represents a welcome check on this ever-expanding scope of government power.