Author Archives: Clark S. Judge

Trial Lawyers Use COVID-19 to Prey on America’s Corporations | Real Clear Policy | 12.1.20

With the promise of a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, the nation is taking a small sigh of relief. Yet, nine months into the pandemic shutdown — with cases spiking again — Americans face a major obstacle to restoring jobs and prosperity: trial lawyers. As the head of a strategic communications firm that has spent […]
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Trump’s Nomination of ACB Honors Constitutional Norms; Dems Dishonor Them | American Greatness | 9.27.20

To hear Democrats in Congress, the very nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is illegitimate. Putting up a new member in an election year, they and their media pals tell us, violates every unwritten “norm” of our system. They are wrong.
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Defending ‘New Europe’ from Old Europe’s Woke | American Greatness | 8.8.20

All but ignored on this side of the Atlantic, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán recently summed up one of the presidential campaign’s most critical and least-discussed issues—U.S. support for the frontline NATO states of Hungary and Poland against political assaults from their allies and ours in the European Union. Our national security is at stake […]
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Trump Talks the Talk | US News | 8.10.2017

Brilliant or reckless? What is going on with President Donald Trump and his mouth … uh, his rhetoric? Well, to start, by and large his prepared speeches have been excellent, even brilliant. Think of his address to the joint session of Congress. Yes, Republicans were ready to cheer, but the real question of the night […]
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Rollback of the Basel Accords Is Key to Trump’s 3% Growth Goals | RealClearMarkets | 8.22.2017

Despite the soap opera that has become Washington, the Trump Administration will likely succeed or fail on whether it can reignite U.S. economic growth. Regulatory rollback is a big part of its get-America-moving-again agenda, perhaps the biggest, if Congress remains frozen. But while the Administration has made good progress reversing the regulatory overreach of the […]
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Summer Scandal: Trump Tower Russia Meeting Revisited | Ricochet | 7.20.2017

September 5, 2017, Washington: Looking back at this summer’s scandal around Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in his Trump Tower office, revelations have come so quickly that the editors are providing this recap for readers struggling to keep up. Mid-July: When news of the meeting first broke, we reported that it […]
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Reagan in the Wilderness | National Review | 4.17.2017

Thucydides had a great advantage over later historians in telling his tale of the Peloponnesian War: As a general in the Greek army, he had been there. Craig Shirley, who is emerging as the most prolific and, in some respects, most insightful chronicler of Ronald Reagan’s political rise, shares that advantage. He was there. As […]
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The Toughest Job in Washington | Wall Street Journal | 4.14.2017

‘Personnel is policy” goes an enduring White House cliché, and of no staffer is that claim more true than the president’s chief of staff. As Chris Whipple argues in “The Gatekeepers,” a group portrait of White House chiefs from Richard Nixon’s tenure to Barack Obama’s , the chief of staff has been the key to […]
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