Tom G. K. Swift

Tom G. K. Swift


  • Why Liberal Judges Have a Lot to Answer For

    March 27, 2025

    Why Liberal Judges Have a Lot to Answer For

    What distinguishes the rule of law from the rule of men is that the former contains limiting principles, which sharply and fundamentally limit the ability of men to decide the law as they see fit. Limiting principles are what remove arbitrariness and...

  • Limited Lawfare and Its Uses

    January 6, 2025

    Limited Lawfare and Its Uses

    The outgoing Biden administration is wreaking slow-motion havoc on America. Plans and projects of regime transformation, regulations, and new rules to tie up the law in both straightforward and convoluted ways, and other actions to hastily circu...

  • January 13, 2024

    Whose Side Is Reason On?

    The opponents of Donald Trump invariably think it’s unreasonable to believe that the 2020 election was stolen.  Let's call this, for convenience, the "Unreasonableness View." A stolen election is one in which there is Outc...

  • September 19, 2023

    The 2020 Election Plot Thickens

    There is more than one way to skin a cat, it seems. I have previously pointed out the craziness of the epistemic standard that is being deployed against Donald Trump in the election-interference cases. The epistemic standard in question is the bel...