Thomas Jipping is deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

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July 3, 2019, 10:13 AM EDT
(Photos by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Efforts to turn judges from impartial umpires into political operatives confirm the axiom that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
June 21, 2019, 12:11 PM EDT
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (left) (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) and the Bladensburg Peace Cross (right) (Screenshot)
October 18, 2018, 4:27 PM EDT
The 50-48 Senate vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was the closest confirmation since 1881, when Justice Stanley Matthews was approved by a vote of 24-23.
August 30, 2018, 9:36 AM EDT
Jack Phillips owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, and is himself a master baker. He’s in trouble with the state of Colorado for declining to create a custom cake for an event because doing so would violate his religious beliefs.
August 27, 2018, 3:57 PM EDT
Back in July, some Senate Democrats started demanding that the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be delayed until after the Mueller investigation is finished.