The Supreme Court will consider whether states may require courts to be largely balanced with members of the major political parties, it announced Friday. The case comes from Delaware, where the state Constitution requires its highest courts to have no more than a bare majority of judges from one political party. For instance, the state's supreme court must be made up of three members of one party, and two of the other.

There was a lot of pre-hearing hype about the Democrats’ supposedly stellar academic experts, sort of analogous to the giddiness about the “dream team,” “all-stars,” and “hunter-killer” legal eagles that Robert Mueller supposedly had assembled to pick apart the Trump carrion — and they likewise proved a complete dud.

(Part 1) Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses his Defining Ideas article "Our Precarious Pipeline Infrastructure."

Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment.