Carrie Severino

Opinion October 10

The Kavanaugh assassination plot deserved far more than 8 years

Biden-appointed judge gives Nicholas Roske eight-year sentence for Supreme Court assassination attempt amid concerns about political violence against conservatives.

OPINION October 2, 2023

Supreme Court cases in new term pose a multi-front challenge to the unaccountable administrative state

The Supreme Court's new term does not include headline-grabbing social issues, but the constitutional balance of power and the future of the administrative state. 

OPINION February 27, 2023

Supreme Court must stop Biden snatching this power from the people on student debt handouts

The Supreme Court will soon look at whether President Biden has the authority to cancel $430 billion in federal student-loan debt.

OPINION October 31, 2022

Harvard affirmative action case: Supreme Court must defend color-blind Constitution

Supreme Court will hear oral argument Monday in two cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina that ask: May universities use race as a factor in admissions?

OPINION October 3, 2022

Supreme Court's new term should bring constitutional clarity, as far left turns up the heat on justices

Supreme Court's new term should bring constitutional clarity on affirmative action, voting and religious rights, as far left turns up the heat on justices.

OPINION June 27, 2022

Courageous Supreme Court's abortion ruling makes history

Threats and violence failed to intimidate the Supreme Court majority in overturning Roe and the justices should be recognized for their courage.

OPINION June 21, 2022

Democrats ignore threats against justices, churches, pregnancy centers and it's deeply disturbing

Since the draft Supreme Court opinion on Dobbs was leaked we have witnessed violence and threats against churches, justices and pregnancy centers. But Democrats just shrug.

OPINION June 10, 2022

Supreme Court intimidation has taken justices to a dark place

Attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh is only the latest in a 35-year Democrat campaign to intimidate the Court over the issue of abortion

OPINION May 3, 2022

Supreme Court leak is shameful attempt to poison an outstanding opinion

A reportedly draft majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade has been leaked to the general public. The reactions from the usual groups on the left and Democrat politicians have consisted of—well, the same histrionics they have displayed to try to poison decades of Supreme Court nominations and decisions.

OPINION March 25, 2022

Judge Ketanjii Brown Jackson plays politics and pleads ignorance when questioned about judicial philosophy

Judge Ketanjii Brown Jackson tried to sound like an originalist or textualist at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings because that is what Americans want in their judges. They do not want judges who are going to be politicians in robes, rubber-stamping radical left-wing policies.

OPINION March 21, 2022

Supreme Court Senate hearings – nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson should answer fair questions

Don't expect the hearings to become a circus, as they did for Brett Kavanaugh Instead, expect Republican senators to ask probing questions about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s view of the Constitution.

Supreme Court March 12, 2022

Biden Supreme Court pick backed by radicals who believe the Constitution is 'trash'

Why do dark money leftist extremists all support Ketanji Brown Jackson?

OPINION February 26, 2022

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, a politician in robes

The selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court was widely expected. From the start of his administration, Joe Biden has made it clear that his top priority is paying back the liberal Arabella Advisors dark money network that spent over one billion dollars to help elect him and Senate Democrats.

OPINION January 28, 2022

Expect Biden's Supreme Court nominee to appease the radical left

This past week brought the news of Justice Breyer’s plans to retire from the Supreme Court after 27 years of service.

OPINION December 2, 2021

On abortion, Supreme Court should let Mississippi and 'We the People' decide

None of the Supreme Court justices came to yesterday’s oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization unaware of the outsized role the abortion issue has played in our politics.

OPINION November 29, 2021

Supreme Court's Mississippi abortion case – here's why this case is so important

The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in the most consequential abortion case since Roe v. Wade, presenting an opportunity to correct one of the greatest acts of judicial arrogance in history.

OPINION October 15, 2021

Carrie Severino: Clarence Thomas' 30 years of fearlessness, foresight on the Supreme Court

Thirty years have passed since Clarence Thomas' confirmation to the Supreme Court, and he has amassed a record as the court’s staunchest defender of constitutional originalism.

OPINION July 1, 2021

Severino & Scaturro: Biden suffers Supreme Court smackdown

The Supreme Court term has been a good one for those who believe in the original meaning of the Constitution and the rule of law.

OPINION February 22, 2021

Carrie Severino: Biden Justice Department nominee Gupta too extreme for associate AG -- here's why

During his inaugural address, President Biden waxed poetically about "unity not division." But not even a month later, he is delivering a steady diet of extremism – both in his policies and his top-level executive branch nominees.

OPINION October 26, 2020

Severino and Scaturro: Why Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation is an imminent victory for court and country

From the time of his first election four years ago, President Trump promised to appoint justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. He has kept that promise.

Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett October 19, 2020

Carrie Severino: Amy Coney Barrett's nomination -- a milestone that can be undone

The nation should not deceive itself about Democrats’ intentions if they were to win control of the elected branches of government.

Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett October 11, 2020

Severino and Scaturro: Amy Coney Barrett deserves same fair hearing Justice Ginsburg once received

During her confirmation hearing in 1993, then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg declined to answer any questions about issues that may come before her on the Supreme Court. 

Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett October 9, 2020

Carrie Severino: Democrats should stop trying to delay Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation vote in Senate

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whose Senate confirmation hearing for a seat on the Supreme Court begins Monday, is exceptionally qualified and brilliant.

2020 Presidential Election October 1, 2020

Carrie Severino: Why is Biden still stonewalling on the Supreme Court?

Joe Biden owes voters specifics about what type of judge he would nominate

2020 Presidential Election September 22, 2020

Severino and Scaturro: Supreme Court confirmation can proceed – History, voters confirm it

There is no historical reason that the president should not nominate and the Senate should not confirm a new justice without delay.