The Constitution is clear: The power to govern federal elections belongs to state lawmakers. The Supreme Court considers on Wednesday whether the Constitution’s Elections Clause means what it says—that “the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature ...

Democrats began litigating years ago, and quicker resolutions could have prevented problems now. Whoever first quipped “It’s all over but the counting” forgot about the lawyers. Over the past year, Democrats and their allies marched through state after state in an unprecedented legal campaign to upend longstanding rules of election ...

Her appellate-court opinions on gun rights and regulatory power are models of careful originalism. It speaks volumes that the early opponents of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation have almost nothing to say about the work that has defined her career. Her scholarly and judicial writings place her at the center of the mainstream consensus on ...

Some in Washington want to unleash government to harass heretics who don’t accept the ‘consensus.’ Galileo Galilei was tried in 1633 for spreading the heretical view that the Earth orbits the sun, convicted by the Roman Catholic Inquisition, and remained under house arrest until his death. Today’s inquisitors seek their quarry’s imprisonment ...

The Supreme Court sent a clear message: Your clean-energy strong-arming campaign must stop. President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is dead and will not be resurrected. The cause of death was hubris. As a result, the plan’s intended victims—including the national coal industry, the rule of law and state sovereignty—will live to fight ...