Democratic State Supreme Court Justices Suddenly Discover Partisan Redistricting Is Bad

Jim Geraghty

It’s not hard to notice that in many minds, drawing district lines to maximize partisan advantage only became a threat to democracy once Republicans started doing it.

In a move certain to upend state politics and the critical 2018 elections, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state’s congressional map “clearly, plainly, and palpably” violates the state constitution and blocked its use in the May primaries.

The justices, a majority of whom are Democrats, sided with a group of voters who contended that the state’s 18 U.S. House districts were unconstitutionally drawn to discriminate against Democrats. The court ordered the Republican-led legislature to draw a new map immediately.

Senate Republicans vowed to request a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. In a statement, President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and Majority Leader Jake Corman attacked the ruling as a “partisan action showing a distinct lack of ...

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The 97 Percent Schumer Shutdown Is Now 100 Percent Kaput

Deroy Murdock

Should historians look back at the federal government’s just-ended closure as the Trump Shutdown or the Schumer Shutdown? If President Donald J. Trump had vetoed a last-minute spending bill,...

Progressive Critics of Trump’s HHS Are Sliming Christians for Enforcing the Law

David French

Progressive Critics of Trump’s HHS Are Sliming Christians for Enforcing the Law

Don’t Buckle on Immigration

The Editors

This fight — over immigration and a government shutdown — is far from over. Republicans right now are more upbeat than Democrats because it’s the latter who have felt it necessary to switch...

Roe v. Wade at 45: Most Americans Support Abortion Restrictions

Alexandra DeSanctis

Forty-five years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, declaring that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution provides a woman with the right to an abortion. At...

The Limits of the Resistance

Rich Lowry

Chuck Schumer started a government shutdown he couldn’t finish. The New York Democrat, among the shrewdest operators in national politics, stumbled badly because he succumbed to the siren...

California, America’s Poverty Capital

Kerry Jackson

Editor’s Note: The following piece originally appeared in City Journal’s Winter 2018 issue. It is reprinted here with permission. California — not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia —...

Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution

D. Peter MacLeod

"Definitive . . . superb in its combination of individual perspective and strategic narrative . . . This book tells us – brilliantly – both how the battle was fought, and what it meant."
- Eliot A. Cohen, author of Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War

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