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| birth_name = Ann Hart Coulter
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|12|8}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
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| alma_mater = {{ubl | [[Cornell University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) | [[University of Michigan]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}}
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| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref name="registration">{{cite web |title=Ann Coulter's Florida Voter Registration Application Form |publisher=bradblog.com |url=http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=4019 |date=April 11, 2006 |access-date=May 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401061507/http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=4019 |archive-date=April 1, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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'''Ann Hart Coulter''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|oʊ|l|t|ɚ|audio=en-us-Coulter.oga}}; born December 8, 1961) is an American [[Conservatism|conservative]] [[Pundit|political commentator]], [[author]], [[Columnist|syndicated columnist]] and [[Pundit|media pundit]]. A graduate of [[Cornell University]] (B.A., 1984) and the [[University of Michigan Law School]] (J.D., 1988), she launched her career as a corporate lawyer and law clerk before serving on the [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee]] in the mid‑1990s. Coulter gained national prominence in the late 1990s as a television legal analyst and has since authored more than a dozen best‑selling political books, including ''Slander'' (2002), ''[[Godless: The Church of Liberalism|Godless]]'' (2006), and ''[[In Trump We Trust]]'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bio |url=https://anncoulter.com/bio/ |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=Ann Coulter |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Books |url=https://anncoulter.com/books/ |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=Ann Coulter |language=en-US}}</ref> Known for her provocative rhetoric and polemical style, she frequently critiques liberal politics and media institutions and regularly appears across cable and radio platforms.
==Early life==
[[File:Ann Coulter HS Yearbook.jpeg|thumb|upright|Coulter as a senior in high school, 1980]]
Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961,<ref>Coulter, however disputes this birth date. {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/17/ann-coulter-believes-the-left-has-lost-its-mind-should-we-listen|title=Ann Coulter believes the left has 'lost its mind'. Should we listen?|author=Conroy, J Oliver|work=The Guardian|date=October 17, 2018|access-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017110348/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/17/ann-coulter-believes-the-left-has-lost-its-mind-should-we-listen|archive-date=October 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> in New York City, to John Vincent Coulter (1926–2008), an [[FBI agent]] from a [[working class]] [[Catholic]] [[Irish American]] and [[German American]] family<ref name=hufpost1>Smolenyak, Megan. {{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/ann-coulters-immigrant-an_b_8332212.html |title=Ann Coulter's Immigrant Ancestors |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=October 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020190956/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/ann-coulters-immigrant-an_b_8332212.html |archive-date=October 20, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Albany, New York]], and Nell Husbands Coulter (née Martin; 1928–2009), a homemaker who was born in [[Paducah, Kentucky]].
Coulter's mother's ancestry has been traced back on both sides of her family to a group of [[Puritan]] [[settler]]s in [[Plymouth Colony]], [[British America]] arriving on the ''[[Griffin (ship)|Griffin]]'' with [[Thomas Hooker]] in 1633,<ref>{{cite web|last=Coulter|first=Ann|title=Nell Husbands Martin Coulter|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2009-04-22.html|website=AnnCoulter.com|access-date=January 27, 2018|date=April 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123212309/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2009-04-22.html|archive-date=January 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and her father's family were Catholic Irish and German immigrants who arrived in America in the 19th century. Her father's Irish ancestors emigrated during the [[Irish famine|famine]]<ref name=hufpost1 />—and became ship laborers, tilemakers, brickmakers, carpenters and [[Flagman (rail)|flagmen]]. Coulter's father attended college on the [[GI Bill]] and later became an FBI agent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-01-09.html|title=Ann Coulter – January 9, 2008 – John Vincent Coulter|date=January 9, 2008|publisher=anncoulter.com|access-date=April 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172319/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-01-09.html|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=live}}<br />[http://www.humanevents.com/2009/04/22/nell-husbands-martin-coulter/ "Nell Husbands Nartin CoulterLL"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714203000/http://humanevents.com/2009/04/22/nell-husbands-martin-coulter/ |date=July 14, 2014}}. humanevents.com. April 2009.</ref>
She has two older brothers: James, an accountant,<ref>{{cite web|title=James Coulter|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcoulter1/|website=LinkedIn|access-date=January 27, 2018}}</ref> and John, an attorney.<ref>{{cite web|title=Coulter & Walsh: About (John V. Coulter)|url=http://coulterwalsh.com/about/|publisher=coulterwalsh.com|access-date=January 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127205504/http://coulterwalsh.com/about/|archive-date=January 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Her family later moved to [[New Canaan, Connecticut]], where Coulter and her two brothers were raised.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Holson|first1=Laura M.|title=Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 27, 2018|date=October 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108153418/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html|archive-date=November 8, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter graduated from [[New Canaan High School]] in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/creativity/ann-coulter-how-far-too-far-18816/|title = With Ann Coulter, how far is 'too far'?| date=June 15, 2006 }}</ref>
While attending [[Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences|Cornell University]], Coulter helped found ''[[The Cornell Review]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cornellreview/docs/xxxi-6-webfinal|title=Cornell Review XXXI #6 Coulter '84 Denied Invitation by Fordham|website=Issuu|date=December 4, 2012 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415152617/https://issuu.com/cornellreview/docs/xxxi-6-webfinal|archive-date=April 15, 2016|access-date=April 4, 2016}}<br />''The Nation'': [http://www.thenation.com/article/once-bright-star-dims?page=full A Once-Bright Star Dims.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217043533/http://www.thenation.com/article/once-bright-star-dims?page=full|date=February 17, 2015}} January 30, 2003.</ref> and was a member of the [[Delta Gamma]] national sorority.<ref name="deltagamma">{{cite news|url=http://www.deltagamma.org/anchora/summer_05_anchora.pdf|title=From the pens of Delta Gammas|date=Summer 2005|access-date=July 11, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528155158/http://www.deltagamma.org/anchora/summer_05_anchora.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2006|publisher=Anchora of Delta Gamma|page=29 (16 in PDF)}}</ref> She graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from Cornell in 1984 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[history]] and received her [[Juris Doctor]] from the [[University of Michigan Law School]] in 1988, where she was an editor of the ''[[Michigan Law Review]]''.<ref>"[http://premierespeakers.com/2718/index.cfm Ann Coulter: bestselling author and political commentator] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114081030/http://premierespeakers.com/2718/index.cfm|date=November 14, 2006}} (Profile)". ''[http://www.premierespeakers.com/ premierespeakers.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705231717/http://premierespeakers.com/|date=July 5, 2006}}''. Retrieved July 10, 2006. See also ''Michigan Law Review'' vol. 86 No. 5 (April 1988), where Ann Coulter "of Connecticut" is listed on the masthead as an articles editor.</ref> At Michigan, Coulter was president of the local chapter of the [[Federalist Society]] and was trained at the [[National Journalism Center]].<ref>Hallow, Ralph. "[http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060221-122951-2550r.htm A lifelong voice for conservatives]". ''[[The Washington Times]]''. February 21, 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref>
Coulter's age was disputed in 2002. While she argued that she was not yet 40, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' columnist [[Lloyd Grove]] cited a birthdate of December 8, 1961, which Coulter provided when registering to vote in [[New Canaan, Connecticut]], prior to the [[1980 United States presidential election|1980 Presidential election]], for which she had to be 18 years old to register. A driver's license issued several years later purportedly listed her birthdate as December 8, 1963. Coulter has not confirmed either date, citing privacy concerns.<ref name="Grove_Lloyd">{{cite news|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|title=Mystery of the Ages|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 6, 2002|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/09/06/the-reliable-source/dc20d57b-0508-45e7-a7f1-7a93d293f840/|access-date=September 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017071607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/09/06/the-reliable-source/dc20d57b-0508-45e7-a7f1-7a93d293f840/|archive-date=October 17, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Career==
After law school, Coulter served as a [[law clerk]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] for Judge [[Pasco Bowman II]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit]].<ref>See {{cite news |title=Liberals, conservatives duke it out on paper |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20031005/ai_n11424888 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820063927/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20031005/ai_n11424888 |archive-date=August 20, 2013 |last=Lythgoe |first=Dennis |date=October 5, 2003 |newspaper=[[Deseret Morning News]] |page=E1 }}; {{cite news |title=Op-Ed: Congress Goes Fishing |last=Hentoff |first=Nat |date=December 5, 1998|newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A23}}; Coulter herself says it was Bowman. See [http://www.anncoulter.com/my_life.html her online bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810220335/http://www.anncoulter.com/my_life.html |date=August 10, 2015 }}; see also {{cite news |title=ABA's ratings no more |last=Coulter |first=Ann |date=May 3, 2001|work=[[The Washington Times]] |page=A15}}</ref> After a short time working in New York City in private practice, where she specialized in [[corporate law]], Coulter left to work for the United States [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] after the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] [[Republican Revolution|took control of Congress]] in 1994. She handled crime and immigration issues for Senator [[Spencer Abraham]] of [[Michigan]] and helped craft legislation designed to expedite the [[deportation]] of [[Alien (law)|aliens]] convicted of [[felony|felonies]].<ref name=Daley1999>Daley, David. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HC&p_theme=hc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=ann%20AND%20coulter%20AND%20shining&s_dispstring=ann%20coulter%20shining%20AND%20date(1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1999&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no "Ann Coulter: light's all shining on her"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060723232958/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HC&p_theme=hc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=ann%20AND%20coulter%20AND%20shining&s_dispstring=ann%20coulter%20shining%20AND%20date(1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1999&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no |date=July 23, 2006 }}. ''Hartford Courant''. June 25, 1999.</ref> She later became a litigator with the [[Center for Individual Rights]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservative Coulter sounds off in her latest book; ''Treason'' aims to change views on McCarthy |last=Moore |first=Frazier |date=October 5, 2003|work=[[Telegraph Herald]] |page=e2}}</ref>
Coulter has written 13 books, and also publishes a syndicated newspaper column. She is particularly known for her [[polemic]]al style,<ref name="coulter_style">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1203281,00.html|title=What Would Ann Coulter Do?|last=Schmidt|first=Tracy Samantha|date=June 12, 2006|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922090104/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1203281,00.html|archive-date=September 22, 2009}}</ref> and describes herself as someone who likes to "stir up the pot. I don't pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.salon.com/2002/07/13/coulter_6/
| title = Throwing the book at her
| author = Bryan Keefer
| work = Salon
| date = July 13, 2002
| access-date = March 8, 2014
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140309054356/http://www.salon.com/2002/07/13/coulter_6/
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She idolized [[Clare Boothe Luce]] for her satirical style.<ref>David T. Courtwright, ''No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America'', Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010, p. 230</ref> She also makes numerous public appearances, speaking on television and radio [[talk show]]s, as well as on [[college]] [[campus]]es, receiving both praise and protest. Coulter typically spends 6 to 12 weeks of the year on speaking engagement tours, and more when she has a book coming out.<ref>{{cite news
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html
| title = Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image
| author = Laura M. Holson
| work = The New York Times
| date = October 8, 2010
| access-date = March 8, 2014
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In 2010, she made an estimated $500,000 on the speaking circuit, giving speeches on topics of modern [[conservatism]], [[gay marriage]], and what she describes as the hypocrisy of [[modern American liberalism]].<ref name="Newsweek_2010">{{cite news|title=Newsweek's Power 50: Profiles.|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/01/power-list-profiles/ann-coulter.html|access-date=June 9, 2011|newspaper=[[Newsweek]]|date=November 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120124955/http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/01/power-list-profiles/ann-coulter.html|archive-date=January 20, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> During one appearance at the [[University of Arizona]], a [[Pieing|pie was thrown at her]].<ref name="ua_pie">{{cite web|url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1022042coulter1.html|title=Al Pieda Targets Ann Coulter|date=October 22, 2004|website=[[The Smoking Gun]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730091315/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1022042coulter1.html|archive-date=July 30, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ua_pie_2">{{cite news|url=http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/98/236/01_4.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721030459/http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/98/236/01_4.html|archive-date=July 21, 2006|title=Former student enters plea in 2004 Coulter pie assault|last=Wells|first=Holly|date=January 12, 2006|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Wildcat]]|access-date=June 28, 2009}}</ref><ref name="foxnews_pie">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/the-pie-proof-ann-coulter-on-hecklers|title=The Pie-Proof Ann Coulter on Hecklers|date=May 4, 2005|publisher=[[Fox News]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102065404/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155550,00.html|archive-date=November 2, 2008}}</ref> In defense of her ideas, Coulter has on occasion responded with inflammatory remarks toward hecklers and protestors who attend her speeches.<ref name="pickfights">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1401932/I-love-to-pick-fights-with-liberals.html|title=I love to pick fights with liberals|date=July 19, 2002|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|___location=London|first=Toby|last=Harnden|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090702192816/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1401932/I-love-to-pick-fights-with-liberals.html|archive-date=July 2, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="the_oracle">{{cite news|url=http://www.usforacle.com/2.5741/controversial-conservative-pundit-elicits-praise-and-protest-thursday-1.622425 |title=Controversial Conservative Pundit Elicits Praise and Protest Thursday |last=Guidi |first=David |date=October 20, 2006 |publisher=The Oracle (University of South Florida) |access-date=June 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613204227/http://www.usforacle.com/2.5741/controversial-conservative-pundit-elicits-praise-and-protest-thursday-1.622425 |archive-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref>
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[[File:Ann Coulter2.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Ann Coulter at the [[2004 Republican National Convention]]]]
Coulter has authored twelve books, including many that have appeared on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]], with a combined 3 million copies sold {{as of|2009|May|lc=y}}.<ref name="depasquale">{{cite news|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/LisaDePasquale/2009/05/06/being_ann|title=Being Ann|last=De Pasquale|first=Lisa|date=May 6, 2009|publisher=[[Townhall.com]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509150436/http://townhall.com/columnists/LisaDePasquale/2009/05/06/being_ann|archive-date=May 9, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter's first book, ''[[High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton]]'', was published by [[Regnery Publishing]] in 1998 and made ''The New York Times'' Bestseller list.<ref name="Howard Kurtz">{{cite news |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |date=October 16, 1998 |title=The Blonde Flinging Bombshells at Bill Clinton |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/coulter101698.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411100354/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/coulter101698.htm |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}<br />{{cite news |last=Cloud |first=John |date=April 17, 2005 |title=Ms. Right: Ann Coulter |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050304,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309012557/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050304,00.html |archive-date=March 9, 2014 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |magazine=Time}}</ref> It details Coulter's case for the [[Clinton impeachment|impeachment]] of President [[Bill Clinton]].
Her second book, ''[[Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right]]'', published by [[Crown Publishing Group|Crown Forum]] in 2002, reached the number one spot on ''The New York Times'' non-fiction best seller list.<ref name="slander_bestseller">{{cite news|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/ann_coulter/index.html|title=Ann Coulter|date=March 10, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 21, 2009|first=Ian|last=Austen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313150623/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/ann_coulter/index.html|archive-date=March 13, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''Slander'', Coulter argues that President [[George W. Bush]] was given unfair negative media coverage. The factual accuracy of ''Slander'' was called into question by then-[[comedian]] and author, later Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] from [[Minnesota]], [[Al Franken]]; he also accused her of citing passages out of context.<ref name="frankenbook">{{cite book|author=Franken, Al |title=Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right |publisher=Dutton Books |year=2003 |isbn = 0-525-94764-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/lieslyingliar00fran_0}}</ref> Others investigated these charges, and also raised questions about the book's accuracy and presentation of facts.<ref>[http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020713.html "Throwing the book at her"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517065514/http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020713.html |date=May 17, 2011 }}, ''Spinsanity''. July 13, 2002. Retrieved September 30, 2007.<br />[http://www.spinsanity.com/columns/20030630.html "Screed: With Treason, Ann Coulter once again defines a new low in America's political debate"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613115053/http://www.spinsanity.com/columns/20030630.html |date=June 13, 2011 }}, ''Spinsanity''. June 30, 2003. Retrieved September 30, 2007.</ref><ref name="slippery_slander">{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A94600403}} |last1=Scherer |first1=Michael |last2=Secules |first2=Sarah |title=Books: how slippery is Slander? |journal=Columbia Journalism Review |date=1 November 2002 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=14–15 }}</ref> Coulter responded to criticisms in a column called "Answering My Critics".<ref name="answering_critics">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter100903.asp|title=Answering my critics|last=Coulter|first=Ann|date=October 9, 2003|magazine=[[Jewish World Review]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226045642/http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter100903.asp|archive-date=February 26, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
In her third book, ''Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism'', also published by Crown Forum, she reexamines the 60-year history of the [[Cold War]]—including the career of [[Joseph McCarthy|Senator Joseph McCarthy]], the [[Whittaker Chambers]]-[[Alger Hiss]] affair, and [[Ronald Reagan]]'s challenge to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] to "[[tear down this wall]]"—and argues that liberals were wrong in their Cold War political analyses and policy decisions, and that McCarthy was correct about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1200/article_detail.asp |title=Tailgunner Ann |author=William F. Buckley Jr. |publisher=The Claremont Institute |date=December 1, 2003 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309032438/http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1200/article_detail.asp |archive-date=March 9, 2014}}</ref>
She also argues that the correct identification of [[Annie Lee Moss]], among others, as [[communist]]s was misreported by the liberal media.<ref>{{cite news
| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-13-bk-heilbrunn13-story.html
| title = McCarthy in a mini
| author = Jacob Heilbrunn
| work = Los Angeles Times
| date = July 13, 2003
| access-date = March 8, 2014
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''Treason'' was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list.<ref name="sfgate">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/02/DDG4F3DPKR1.DTL|title=An outbreak of partisan warfare on the best-seller list is encouraging authors to stoke the fires of readers hungry for political squabbles—and the Bay Area is fertile ground for Bush-whackers|last=Guthmann|first=Edward|date=December 2, 2003|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210000638/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2003%2F12%2F02%2FDDG4F3DPKR1.DTL|archive-date=December 10, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>
Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, ''[[How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)|How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter]]''.<ref>{{cite news
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Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is ''[[Godless: The Church of Liberalism]]''.<ref>{{cite news
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| title = Deadly Intent: Ann Coulter, Word Warrior
| author = David Carr
| work = The New York Times
| date = June 12, 2006
| access-date = March 8, 2014
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In it, she argues, first, that [[Liberalism in the United States|American liberalism]] rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself.<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3309572
| title = Read an Excerpt of "Godless: The Church of Liberalism"
| author = Ann Coulter
| work = ABC News
| date = June 25, 2007
| access-date = March 8, 2014
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''Godless'' debuted at number one on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list.<ref name="nyt_bestsellers_062506">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/bestseller/0625besthardnonfiction.html|title=Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction|date=June 25, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411005233/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/bestseller/0625besthardnonfiction.html|archive-date=April 11, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter's ''If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans'' (Crown Forum), published in October 2007, and ''[[Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America]]'' (Crown Forum), published on January 6, 2009, both also achieved best-seller status.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3738089|title=Ann Coulter: Marketing Genius?|author=Emily Friedman|work=ABC News|date=October 17, 2007|access-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217044324/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3738089|archive-date=February 17, 2015|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/InsideList-t.html| title = Inside the List| author = Jennifer Schuessler| work = The New York Times| date = June 17, 2011| access-date = March 8, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150217084545/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/InsideList-t.html| archive-date = February 17, 2015| url-status = live}}<br />{{cite news| url = http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/ann-coulter-follows-up-guilty-with-demonic/| title = Ann Coulter Follows Up 'Guilty' with 'Demonic'| author = Julie Bosman| work = The New York Times| date = April 19, 2011| access-date = March 8, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131205064159/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/ann-coulter-follows-up-guilty-with-demonic/| archive-date = December 5, 2013| url-status = live}}</ref>
On June 7, 2011, [[Crown Publishing Group|Crown Forum]] published her eighth book ''Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coulter |first1=Ann H. |title=Mugged: racial demagoguery from the seventies to Obama |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781595230997 |publisher=New York : Sentinel |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=2012|isbn=978-1-59523-099-7 }}</ref>
Her ninth book, published September 25, 2012, was ''[[Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama]]''. It argues that liberals, and Democrats in particular, have taken undue credit for racial civil rights in America.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781595230997 |url-access=registration |publisher=Sentinel |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-59523-099-7}}</ref>
Coulter's tenth book, ''Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican'', was released on October 14, 2013. It is her second collection of columns and her first published by Regnery since her first book, ''High Crimes and Misdemeanors''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hartwell |first=Ray V. III |title=Book Review: 'Never Trust a Liberal Over Three' |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/book-review-never-trust-a-liberal-over-three/ |url-status=live |work=The Washington Times |date=November 4, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227051428/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/book-review-never-trust-a-liberal-over-three/ |archive-date=February 27, 2014}}</ref> Coulter published her eleventh book, ''[[Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole]]'', on June 1, 2015. The book addresses illegal immigration, amnesty programs, and border security in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last=Vernon |first=Wes |title=Book Review: 'Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole' |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/21/wes-vernonadios-america-the-lefts-plan-to-turn-out/?page=all |url-status=live |work=The Washington Times |date=June 21, 2015 |access-date=November 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117053326/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/21/wes-vernonadios-america-the-lefts-plan-to-turn-out/?page=all |archive-date=November 17, 2015}}</ref>
===Columns===
In the late 1990s, Coulter's weekly (biweekly from 1999 to 2000) [[Print syndication|syndicated]] column for [[Universal Press Syndicate]] began appearing. Her column is featured on six conservative websites: ''[[Human Events|Human Events Online]]'', [[WorldNetDaily]], [[Townhall.com]], [[VDARE]], ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]'', ''[[Jewish World Review]]'' and her own website. Her syndicator says, "Ann's client newspapers stick with her because she has a loyal fan base of conservative readers who look forward to reading her columns in their local newspapers".<ref name="EP_mitchell-astor">{{cite news |last1=Astor |first1=Dave |last2=Mitchell |first2=Greg |title=Newspaper Clients, and Syndicate, Stick With Coulter |url=http://www.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2006061922.html |work=[[Editor & Publisher]] |date=June 16, 2006 |access-date=June 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714162642/http://www.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2006061922.html |archive-date=July 14, 2011}}</ref>
In 1999, Coulter worked as a [[columnist]] for ''[[George (magazine)|George]]'' magazine.<ref name = "arm candy">Lehman, Susan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080214150044/http://www.salon.com/media/lehm/1999/03/04lehm.html Conservative pinup battles "arm candy" canard]. ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''. March 4, 1999. Retrieved July 10, 2006.</ref><ref name="tribute-to-john">{{cite news|url=http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=19990728|title=A Republican Tribute to John|last=Coulter|first=Ann|date=July 28, 1999|publisher=uexpress.com|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105033756/http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=19990728|archive-date=January 5, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter also wrote weekly columns for the conservative magazine ''[[Human Events]]'' between 1998 and 2003, with occasional columns thereafter. In her columns, she discussed judicial rulings, [[constitution]]al issues, and legal matters affecting Congress and the [[executive branch]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanevents.com/author/ann-coulter/|title=Ann Coulter's Articles|work=Human Events|access-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318181137/http://www.humanevents.com/author/ann-coulter/|archive-date=March 18, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2001, as a contributing editor and syndicated columnist for ''[[National Review Online]]'' (NRO), Coulter was asked by editors to make changes to a piece written after the [[September 11 attacks]]. On the show ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'', Coulter accused ''NRO'' of [[censorship]] and said she was paid $5 per article. ''NRO'' dropped her column and terminated her editorship. [[Jonah Goldberg]], the editor-at-large of ''NRO'', said: "We did not 'fire' Ann for what she wrote... we ended the relationship because she behaved with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty [concerning the editing disagreement]."<ref name="goldbergjonah">{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/220676/laffaire-coulter/jonah-goldberg |title=L'Affaire Coulter |last=Goldberg |first=Jonah |date=October 2, 2001 |work=[[National Review]] |access-date=November 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901162828/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/220676/laffaire-coulter/jonah-goldberg |archive-date=September 1, 2014}}</ref>
In August 2005, the ''[[Arizona Daily Star]]'' dropped Coulter's syndicated column, citing reader complaints: "Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives".<ref name="AZDailyStar">{{cite news |last=Stoeffler |first=David |title=Opinion pages get a makeover |url=http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/90500.php |newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]] |date=August 28, 2005 |access-date=July 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050925074100/http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/90500.php |archive-date=September 25, 2005}}</ref>
In July 2006, some newspapers replaced Coulter's column with those of other conservative columnists following the publication of her fourth book, ''[[Godless: The Church of Liberalism]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Another Newspaper Decides to Drop Ann Coulter's Column |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/another-newspaper-decides-to-drop-ann-coulter-s-column/ |url-status=live |website=editorandpublisher.com |access-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421154846/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/another-newspaper-decides-to-drop-ann-coulter-s-column/ |archive-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref> After ''[[The Augusta Chronicle]]'' dropped her column, newspaper editor Michael Ryan said: "it came to the point where she was the issue rather than what she was writing about."<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news |last1=Astor |first1=Dave |last2=Mitchell |first2=Greg |title=Augusta Editor Explains Why He Dropped Coulter Column |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002878146 |work=[[Editor & Publisher]] |date=July 24, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822071742/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002878146 |archive-date=August 22, 2006}}</ref> Ryan added that he continued himself "to be an Ann Coulter fan" as "her logic is devastating and her viewpoint is right most of the time."<ref name=autogenerated1 />
===Television, film, and radio===
[[File:Ann Coulter 2012 Shankbone.JPG|right|thumb|upright|Ann Coulter at the 2012 [[Time 100|''Time'' 100]]]]
Coulter made her first national media appearance in 1996 after she was hired by the then-fledgling network [[MSNBC]] as a legal correspondent. She later appeared on [[CNN]] and [[Fox News]],<ref name="msright">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050304-1,00.html |title=Ms. Right |last=Cloud |first=John |date=April 17, 2005 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=June 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524145603/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C1050304-1%2C00.html |archive-date=May 24, 2009 }}</ref> and went on to make frequent guest appearances on many television and radio [[talk show]]s. Additionally, she stars in the 2015 film ''[[Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!]]'', in which she portrays the vice-president of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schulz |first=Bill |date=2015-07-22 |title=Ann Coulter on Her Role in Sharknado 3 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/07/ann-coulter-on-her-role-in-sharknado-3.html |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=Vulture |language=en}}</ref>
== Political views ==
{{Conservatism US|commentators}}
Ann Coulter is a [[conservative]] columnist and, as a member of the [[Federalist Society]], is a staunch advocate of [[Federalism in the United States|federalism]], [[originalism]], [[states' rights]] and [[textualism]]. In 2003, described herself as a "typical, immodest-dressing, swarthy male-loving, friend-to-homosexuals, ultra-conservative."<ref name=appmagic/> She is a registered [[Republican Party (US)|Republican]] and former member of the advisory council of [[GOProud]] since August 9, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Joins Advisory Council of GOP Homosexual Group|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/conservative-ann-coulter-joins-goproud-despite-her-cpac-affliation-53709/|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=[[Christian Post]] Politics|date=August 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911235149/http://www.christianpost.com/news/conservative-ann-coulter-joins-goproud-despite-her-cpac-affliation-53709/|archive-date=September 11, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> When [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] initially defended [[pederasty]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Ann-Coulter-on-Milo-Meltdown-Pederasty-10946624.php|title=Ann Coulter on Milo Meltdown: 'Pederasty Acceptable Only for Refugees and Illegals'|date=February 21, 2017|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135952/https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Ann-Coulter-on-Milo-Meltdown-Pederasty-10946624.php|archive-date=2018-06-12}}</ref> Coulter commented, "Well, Milo learned HIS lesson. Pederasty acceptable only for refugees and illegals. Then libs will support you."<ref>{{cite web |last=Verhoeven |first=Beatrice |title=Ann Coulter on Milo Meltdown: 'Pederasty Acceptable Only for Refugees and Illegals' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/ann-coulter-milo-yiannopoulos-pederasty-acceptable-refugees-illegals/ |website=TheWrap |access-date=September 5, 2021 |date=February 21, 2017 }}</ref> According to [[NBC News]], Coulter has been known for her "racist and anti-immigrant stances" and has made several xenophobic comments about [[Nikki Haley]] in a racist tirade.<ref name=":0"/>
=== Abortion ===
Coulter supported the ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'' ruling, which overturned the ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' and ''[[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]]'' precedent, because she does not believe in a [[right to privacy]]. She believes abortion is a [[states' rights]] issue and opposes federal government regulating both for and against abortion. She describes herself as an "[[Anti-abortion movements|anti-abortion zealot]]". She described banning most abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy as "shockingly reasonable".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anncoulter.com/2022/05/04/alito-will-save-lives-not-biden/|title=ALITO WILL SAVE LIVES, NOT BIDEN|date=May 4, 2022}}</ref> She believes abortion, excluding abortion exceptions in cases of fetal impairment, rape and danger to a woman's life or health, should be illegal in most other cases.<ref>{{cite news|title=Don't Blame Romney|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-11-07.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|publisher=anncoulter.com|date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121210124/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-11-07.html|archive-date=2013-01-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Boboltz |first1=Sara |title=Ann Coulter Joins Critics Of Texas' Brutal Anti-Abortion Decision |url=https://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-joins-critics-texas-225942508.html |access-date=30 December 2023 |work=HuffPost | via=Yahoo News |date=12 December 2023}}</ref>
=== Christianity ===
Coulter is a [[Presbyterian]].<ref name=ytbref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlOwCv6Hj6o|title=YouTube|website=[[YouTube]]|time=2:55|access-date=April 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407011907/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlOwCv6Hj6o|archive-date=April 7, 2015}}</ref> Coulter was raised by a [[Catholic]] father and [[Protestant]] mother.<ref>{{cite web |title=John V. Coulter Obituary (2008) - Albany Times Union |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesunion-albany/name/john-coulter-obituary?id=4938095 |website=Legacy.com |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref> At one public lecture she said: "I don't care about anything else; Christ died for my sins, and nothing else matters."<ref name="Olasky_Marvin">{{cite news|last=Olasky|first=Marvin|title=South Park vs. Ann Coulter|url=http://www.worldmag.com/articles/10919|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=[[World (magazine)|World]]|date=August 13, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927003206/http://www.worldmag.com/articles/10919|archive-date=2011-09-27|url-status=live}}</ref>
Confronting some critics' views that her content and style of writing is unchristian,<ref>''Inside Higher Ed'': [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/01/harding Calling Off Ann Coulter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820172909/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/01/harding |date=2018-08-20 }} December 1, 2005.</ref> Coulter said that she is "a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it."<ref name="mean-spirited">{{cite news|title=Coulter: Press Either 'Incompetent' or Full of 'Left-Wing Bias|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/Article/Coulter-Press-Either-Incompetent-or-Full-of-Left-Wing-Bias-|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=[[Editor & Publisher]]|date=July 21, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315042752/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/Article/Coulter-Press-Either-Incompetent-or-Full-of-Left-Wing-Bias-|archive-date=2012-03-15|url-status=live}}</ref> Six years later, in 2011, she also said "Christianity fuels everything I write."<ref name="DePasquale_Lisa">{{cite news|last=De Pasquale|first=Lisa|title=Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines 'Mental Disorder' of Liberalism|url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15363|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=[[Human Events]]|date=June 6, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524115319/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15363|archive-date=May 24, 2011}}</ref>
=== Confederate Flag and India ===
She supports [[Modern display of the Confederate flag|the display of the Confederate flag]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Here's who is still defending the Confederate flag (and the many reasons they give) |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/25/heres-who-is-still-defending-the-confederate-flag-and-the-many-reasons-they-give/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924124502/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/25/heres-who-is-still-defending-the-confederate-flag-and-the-many-reasons-they-give/ |archive-date=2018-09-24 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> and asked former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to go back to [[India]] for removing the Confederate flag during her term as Governor. Coulter also called Haley a "bimbo" and a "preposterous creature" and accused and attacked India for worshipping cows and a "rat temple". She also remarked "This is my country, lady, I'm not an American Indian, and I don't like them taking down all the monuments."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2023-02-16 |title=Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to 'go back to your own country' in racist rant against new GOP presidential candidate |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ann-coulter-tells-nikki-haley-go-back-country-racist-rant-new-gop-pres-rcna71119 |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hensch |first=Mark |date=2015-06-24 |title=Ann Coulter: Nikki Haley 'an immigrant' who doesn't understand Confederate flag |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/245969-ann-coulter-nikki-haley-an-immigrant-who-doesnt-understand/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231130125831/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/245969-ann-coulter-nikki-haley-an-immigrant-who-doesnt-understand/ |archive-date=2023-11-30 |access-date=2025-03-16 |work=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Evolution===
Coulter advocates teaching [[intelligent design]], a pseudoscientific anti-evolution ideology, alongside evolution.<ref name=Chambers2008/><ref>{{cite web|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|author-link=Carl Zimmer|date=2011-08-25|title=Ann Coulter Nostalgia: Behold, For *I* Am The Giant Flatulent Raccoon|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ann-coulter-nostalgia-behold-for-i-am-the-giant-flatulent-raccoon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916224722/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ann-coulter-nostalgia-behold-for-i-am-the-giant-flatulent-raccoon|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 16, 2021|access-date=2021-09-16|website=National Geographic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://anncoulter.com/2022/05/11/dems-speak-out-on-roe-release-the-covid-variants/ |title=Dems Speak Out on Roe: Release the COVID Variants! |author=Ann Coulter |date=May 11, 2022 |publisher=Ann Coulter Official Website |access-date=August 29, 2024}}</ref><ref>Coulter, Ann (2006). ''Godless: The Church of Liberalism''. Crown Forum. p. 199. ISBN 978-1400054206.</ref> In ''[[Godless: The Church of Liberalism]]'', Coulter characterized the theory of [[evolution]] as bogus science, and contrasted her beliefs to what she called the left's "obsession with [[Darwinism]] and the Darwinian view of the world, which replaces sanctification of life with sanctification of sex and death".<ref name="Godless">{{cite book|last=Coulter|first=Ann|title=Godless: The Church of Liberalism|year=2007|publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group]]|___location=New York|isbn=978-1-4000-5421-3|pages=199–282|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_3EeVj2_IUC&q=godless:+the+church+of+liberalism}}</ref>
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Ann Coulter supports, regardless of her own personal position on the issue, a [[Federalism in the United States|federalist]] [[states' rights]] position on [[Abortion in the United States|abortion]],<ref>Time Magazine. "Ann Coulter on Overturning Roe v. Wade." Time, 2022. "I am thrilled that this is going to be turned back to the states."</ref> [[Affirmative action in the United States|affirmative action]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America.* Crown Forum, 2009. Discusses her opposition to federal affirmative action policies, supporting state decision-making.</ref> [[Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction|cannabis legalization]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Speech at CPAC 2013." Conservative Political Action Conference, 2013. Advocated for states' rights to legalize marijuana without federal interference.</ref> [[Capital punishment in the United States|capital punishment]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.* Crown Forum, 2011. Supports states' rights in determining their own policies on the death penalty.</ref> [[Contraception in the United States|contraception]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Who Was the Second Choice?" AnnCoulter.com, October 19, 2005. [https://anncoulter.com/2005/10/19/who-was-the-second-choice/](https://anncoulter.com/2005/10/19/who-was-the-second-choice/).</ref> [[Criminal justice reform in the United States|criminal justice reform]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.* Crown Forum, 2003. Supports state autonomy in criminal justice matters, particularly in sentencing laws.</ref> [[Education in the United States|education]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: Why Liberals Are Afraid of School Choice." Townhall, 2014. Criticizes federal control over education and supports state/local control.</ref> [[Environmental policy of the United States|environmental regulations]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: EPA's New Mandates Are Killing Jobs." Townhall, 2011. Criticizes federal environmental regulations and advocates for state control over environmental policies.</ref> [[Gun politics in the United States|gun control]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.* Regnery Publishing, 1998. Expresses opposition to federal gun control measures, supporting state decision-making.</ref> [[Hate crime laws in the United States|hate crime laws]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Left's Crazy Hate Crime Laws." AnnCoulter.com, 2009. Criticizes hate crime laws and supports state jurisdiction over criminal justice.</ref> [[Healthcare in the United States|healthcare]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.* Crown Forum, 2011. Discusses state control over healthcare and Medicaid expansion.</ref> [[Labor law in the United States|labor laws]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.* Penguin Books, 2012. Discusses her support for state-level decisions on labor laws.</ref> [[Minimum wage in the United States|minimum wage]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: States Know Best on Minimum Wage." Townhall, 2014. Argues that decisions regarding the minimum wage should be left to the states rather than being set by federal mandates.</ref> [[Establishment Clause#Religious displays|religious displays on public buildings]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Ten Commandments Controversy." Townhall, 2005. Discusses her support for states' rights in religious matters.</ref> [[Prostitution in the United States|prostitution]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans*. Crown Forum, 2007.</ref> [[right-to-work law]]s,<ref>{{cite web | last=Coulter | first=Ann | title=MORE GUTSY CALLS FROM OBAMA! | url=https://www.anncoulter.com/2011/05/11/more-gutsy-calls-from-obama/ | date=2011-05-11 | access-date=2024-08-29 | quote=Two weeks ago, Obama's National Labor Relations Board made the gutsy call to file a complaint against Boeing for attempting to build a new airplane production plant in South Carolina -- a right-to-work state -- and demanding that the plant be opened in Washington state -- a dying Democratic pro-union state.}}</ref> [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|same-sex marriage]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Speech at Homocon 2011." GOProud, 2011. "I think it's a state's rights issue, and I think it's crazy for the Supreme Court to take that away from the states."</ref> [[Sodomy laws in the United States|sodomy laws]],<ref>Time Magazine. "10 Questions for Ann Coulter." July 16, 2003. Coulter commented on the Supreme Court's ruling on sodomy laws: "Gay sex may well be a mystery of life, but I'll be damned if I can find it in the Constitution."</ref> [[State preemption|state preemption laws]],<ref>"O'Reilly and Ann Coulter on Westboro Baptist Church vs. Snyder Family." Fox News, 2011. [https://www.foxnews.com/story/oreilly-and-ann-coulter-on-westboro-baptist-church-vs-snyder-family](https://www.foxnews.com/story/oreilly-and-ann-coulter-on-westboro-baptist-church-vs-snyder-family).</ref> [[state religion]],<ref>{{cite web | last=Coulter | first=Ann | title=The Problem With Santorum | url=https://anncoulter.com/2012/02/29/the-problem-with-santorum/ | date=2012-02-29 | access-date=2024-08-29 | quote=... Santorum supports a federal ban on partial-birth abortion -- a position I find to be an unholy abomination and a blatant violation of states' rights.}}</ref> [[Voting rights in the United States|voting rights]],<ref>Coulter, Ann. *If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.* Crown Forum, 2007. Criticizes federal oversight of state voting laws, supports states' rights in voting.</ref> and [[Welfare in the United States|welfare]].<ref>Coulter, Ann. "Column: The Great Republican Welfare Crack-Up." Townhall, 2012. Supports the idea that states should have more control over welfare programs rather than a uniform federal approach.</ref>
=== Civil liberties ===
Coulter endorsed the NSA's [[Terrorist Surveillance Program]] directed at Al-Qaeda.<ref>{{cite web |title=What Part of the War on Terrorism Do They Support? |url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2006-08-23.html |url-status=live |website=www.anncoulter.com |date=August 23, 2006 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412001402/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2006-08-23.html |archive-date=April 12, 2018}}</ref> During a 2011 appearance on ''[[Stossel (TV series)|Stossel]]'', she said "[[PATRIOT Act]], fantastic, [[Gitmo]], fantastic, [[waterboarding]], not bad, though [[torture]] would've been better."<ref>{{cite news |last=Suebsaeng |first=Asawin |title=Ann Coulter Said Anti-War Dems Were 'Traitors.' Now She Says 'War Is Like Crack for' Trump |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/19/ann-coulter-said-anti-war-dems-were-traitors-now-she-says-war-is-like-crack-for-trump |url-status=live |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=April 19, 2017 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428082157/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/19/ann-coulter-said-anti-war-dems-were-traitors-now-she-says-war-is-like-crack-for-trump |archive-date=April 28, 2017}}</ref> She criticized [[Rand Paul]] for "this anti-[[Unmanned combat aerial vehicle|drone]] stuff".<ref>{{cite web |format=Video |last=Wing |first=Nick |title=Ann Coulter: Rand Paul Favors 'Legalizing Pot And Amnesty,' Can't Be GOP Presidential Candidate |website=[[HuffPost]] |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/ann-coulter-rand-paul_n_2957351.html |url-status=live |date=March 26, 2013 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702073626/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/ann-coulter-rand-paul_n_2957351.html |archive-date=July 2, 2015}}</ref>
Coulter opposes [[hate crime laws]], calling them "unconstitutional". She also stated that "Hate-crime provisions seem vaguely directed at capturing a sense of cold-bloodedness, but the law can do that without elevating some victims over others."<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Coulter |url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter011000.asp |url-status=live |website=www.jewishworldreview.com |access-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826080728/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter011000.asp |archive-date=August 26, 2018}}</ref>
===Civil rights===
Although Coulter supported the ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' ruling, she is critical of [[desegregation busing]], which she calls "forced busing" and desegregation court rulings since ''Brown v. Board of Education''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anncoulter.com/2005/01/27/wheres-that-religious-fanatic-we-elected/|title=Where's That Religious Fanatic We Elected?|date=January 27, 2005|website=Ann Coulter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2001/01/17/ashcroft-and-the-blowhard-discuss-n1098659|title=Ann Coulter - Ashcroft and the blowhard discuss|first=Ann|last=Coulter}}</ref> She supports [[literacy tests]] for voting, which she claims are not unconstitutional or prohibited in the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2015/04/15/ann_coulter%e2%80%99s_xenophobic_defense_of_voter_suppression_im_pretty_sure_senate_debates_will_not_be_taking_place_in_urdu/|title=Ann Coulter's xenophobic defense of voter suppression: "I'm pretty sure Senate debates will not be taking place in Urdu"|first=Scott Eric|last=Kaufman|date=April 15, 2015|website=Salon}}</ref> She supports the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anncoulter.com/2013/02/13/white-liberals-tell-black-lies-about-civil-rights/|title=White Liberals Tell Black Lies About Civil Rights|date=February 13, 2013|website=Ann Coulter}}</ref>
===Women's rights===
Coulter rejects "the academic convention of [[euphemism]] and [[circumlocution]]",<ref>{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A438688854}} {{ProQuest|1774914874}} |last=Murphey |first=Dwight D. |title=!Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole |journal=The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies |date=22 December 2015 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=472–487}}]</ref> and is claimed to play to [[misogyny]] in order to further her goals; she "dominates without threatening (at least not straight men)".<ref name=Chambers2008>{{cite journal |id={{Gale|A193247304}} |last1=Chambers |first1=Samuel A. |last2=Finlayson |first2=Alan |title=Ann Coulter and the problem of pluralism: from values to politics |journal=Borderlands |date=May 2008 |volume=7 |issue=1}}</ref> Feminist critics also reject Coulter's opinion that the gains made by women have gone so far as to create an anti-male society<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stambach |first1=Amy |last2=David |first2=Miriam |title=Feminist Theory and Educational Policy: How Gender Has Been 'Involved' in Family School Choice Debates |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |date=January 2005 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=1633–1658 |doi=10.1086/382633 |s2cid=144182384|issn = 0097-9740 }}</ref> and her call for women to be rejected from the military because they are more vicious than men.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Steans |first1=Jill |title=Telling Stories about Women and Gender in the War on Terror |journal=Global Society |date=January 2008 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=159–176 |doi=10.1080/13600820701740795 |s2cid=145586431}}</ref> Like the late anti-feminist [[Phyllis Schlafly]], Coulter uses traditionally masculine rhetoric as reasoning for the need for traditional gender roles, and she carries this idea of feminized dependency into her governmental policies, according to feminist critics.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hoberek |first=Andrew |title=Liberal Antiliberalism: Mailer, O'Connor, and The Gender Politics of Middle-Class Ressentiment |journal=Women's Studies Quarterly |date=2005 |volume=33 |issue=3/4 |pages=24–47 |jstor=40004417}}</ref>
Coulter said in 2021 that women should not be allowed to vote.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullender |first=Andrew |title=Conservative pundit Ann Coulter speaks at Missouri State, says women shouldn't have the right to vote |url=https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/22/ann-coulter-says-women-shouldnt-have-right-vote-19th-amendment-missouri-state-university/8528256002/ |date= October 22, 2021|access-date=2024-05-18 |website=[[Springfield News-Leader]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Immigration ===
Coulter has criticized former president [[George W. Bush]]'s immigration proposals. In a 2007 column, she claimed that the current immigration system was set up to deliberately reduce the percentage of whites in the population.<ref name="roachmotel">{{cite news |last=Coulter |first=Ann |title=Bush's America: Roach Motel |url=http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=188 |publisher=anncoulter.com |date=June 6, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102051234/http://anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=188 |archive-date=January 2, 2010}}</ref>
Coulter opposes the [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2007-06-06.html|date=June 6, 2007 |title=Bush's America: Roach Hotel|website=www.anncoulter.com|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228153803/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2007-06-06.html|archive-date=December 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> She strongly opposed [[amnesty]] for [[undocumented immigrant]]s, and at the 2013 CPAC said she had become "a single-issue voter against amnesty".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Becomes a Single Issue Voter|url=http://barelyablog.com/ann-coulter-becomes-a-single-issue-voter/|access-date=January 31, 2013|publisher=barelyablog.com|date=July 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320052727/http://barelyablog.com/ann-coulter-becomes-a-single-issue-voter/|archive-date=2013-03-20|url-status=live}}</ref>
In June 2018, during the controversy caused by the [[Trump administration family separation policy]], Coulter dismissed immigrant children as "child actors weeping and crying" and urged Trump not to "fall for it".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thomsen |first1=Jacqueline |title=Ann Coulter calls immigrant children 'child actors' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors/ |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620074339/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors |archive-date=2018-06-20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Coulter is an advocate of the [[white genocide conspiracy theory]].<ref>{{cite news |date=August 23, 2018 |title=Trump Wants Pompeo to Study 'Killing of Farmers' in South Africa |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/africa/trump-south-africa-white-farmers.html |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827021629/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/africa/trump-south-africa-white-farmers.html |archive-date=2018-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 9, 2017 |title=The creeping spectre of "white genocide" |publisher=[[The Outline (website)|The Outline]] |url=https://theoutline.com/post/4486/the-creeping-spectre-of-white-genocide |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011125109/https://theoutline.com/post/4486/the-creeping-spectre-of-white-genocide |archive-date=2018-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 28, 2015 |title=Why Ann Coulter is dead wrong about immigration in America |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |url=https://www.dailydot.com/via/ann-coulter-immigration/ |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115030115/https://www.dailydot.com/via/ann-coulter-immigration/ |archive-date=2019-01-15}}</ref> She has compared non-white immigration into the United States with genocide,<ref>{{cite news |date=September 21, 2017 |title=The far right's "Free Speech Week" at UC Berkeley, explained |publisher=[[Vox Media]] |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/21/16333260/free-speech-week-uc-berkeley |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820173014/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/21/16333260/free-speech-week-uc-berkeley |archive-date=2018-08-20}}</ref> and claiming that "a genocide" is occurring against South African farmers,<ref>{{cite news |date=August 12, 2018 |title=The high price of 'white genocide' politics for Australia |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/the-high-price-of-white-genocide-politics-for-australia-20180724-p4zt9k.html |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830031924/https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/the-high-price-of-white-genocide-politics-for-australia-20180724-p4zt9k.html |archive-date=2018-08-30}}</ref> she has said that the [[Boers]] are the "only real refugees" in South Africa.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 16, 2018 |title=Peter Dutton's offer to white South African farmers started on the far right |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/peter-duttons-offer-to-white-south-african-farmers-started-on-the-far-right |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001004405/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/peter-duttons-offer-to-white-south-african-farmers-started-on-the-far-right |archive-date=2018-10-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=August 23, 2018 |title=Trump's tweet echoing white nationalist propaganda about South African farmers, explained |work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/23/17772056/south-africa-trump-tweet-afriforum |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823134558/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/23/17772056/south-africa-trump-tweet-afriforum |archive-date=2018-08-23}}</ref> Regarding domestic politics, ''[[Vox Media|Vox]]'' labelled Coulter as one of many providing a voice for "the 'white genocide' myth",<ref>{{cite news |date=June 18, 2018 |title=The scary ideology behind Trump's immigration instincts |publisher=[[Vox Media]] |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/1/18/16897358/racism-donald-trump-immigration |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231163459/https://www.vox.com/2018/1/18/16897358/racism-donald-trump-immigration |archive-date=2018-12-31}}</ref> and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]] covered Coulter's remarks that if the demographic changes occurring in the U.S. were being "legally imposed on any group other than [[white Americans]], it would be called genocide".<ref>{{cite news |date=May 27, 2015 |title=Ann Coulter – A White Nationalist in the Mainstream? |publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/27/ann-coulter-%E2%80%93-white-nationalist-mainstream |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231181150/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/05/27/ann-coulter-%E2%80%93-white-nationalist-mainstream |archive-date=2018-12-31}}</ref><ref name="roachmotel" />
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Since the 1990s, Coulter has had many acquaintances in the LGBT community. She describes herself as "the [[Judy Garland]] of the Right", reflecting [[Judy Garland as gay icon|Garland's large fan base from the gay community]]. In the last few years before 2015 she attracted LGBT fans, namely gay men and [[drag queen]]s.<ref name="Vice.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/ann-coulter-is-a-human-being/|title=Ann Coulter Is a Human Being|website=Broadly|date=August 13, 2015|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014741/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ann-coulter-is-a-human-being|archive-date=March 10, 2016|access-date=April 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/queen-of-the-hill-the-worlds-best-hillary-impersonator-is-ready-for-2016/|title=Queen of the Hill: The World's Best Hillary Impersonator Is Ready for 2016|website=Broadly|date=September 8, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014738/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/queen-of-the-hill-the-worlds-best-hillary-impersonator-is-ready-for-2016|archive-date=2016-03-10|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/shooting-guns-with-ann-coulter/|title=Shooting Guns With Ann Coulter|website=Broadly|date=August 11, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310014745/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/video/shooting-guns-with-ann-coulter|archive-date=2016-03-10|url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter opposes same-sex marriage, opposes ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]'', and supports, after previously saying she did not, a [[Federal Marriage Amendment|federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?178812-1/supreme-court-constitutional-authority|title=Supreme Court and Constitutional Authority | C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-02-06.html|author=Ann Coulter|date=February 6, 2008|title=From Goldwater Girl to Hillary Girl|publisher=anncoulter.com|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104022235/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2008-02-06.html|archive-date=2016-11-04|url-status=live}}</ref> She claims her opposition to same-sex marriage "wasn't an anti-gay thing" and that "It's genuinely a pro-marriage position to oppose gay marriage".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter: Chick-Fil-A Anti-Gay Stance 'Not An Anti-Gay Thing'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/ann-coulter-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage_n_1744092.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]|date=August 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302014017/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/ann-coulter-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage_n_1744092.html|archive-date=2013-03-02|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter claims that same-sex marriage would "ruin gay culture", because "gays value promiscuous sex over monogamy".<ref name="Vice.com" />
In an October 2003 C-SPAN debate, Coulter said there was nothing in the US Constitution about same-sex marriage and that she did not think she had taken a position yet on the issue of same-sex marriage. When asked, hypothetically, as Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) judge, if she would overturn a state statutorily legalizing same-sex marriage, she said she would not. When asked if she would support a federal U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman, she said she did not because she thought it was pointless as SCOTUS wasn't correctly interpreting the constitution as it is according to her.<ref>"Supreme Court and Constitutional Authority." *C-SPAN*, October 2003. Available at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?178812-1/supreme-court-constitutional-authority</ref> On November 18, 2003, the day ''[[Goodridge v. Department of Public Health]]'' was decided, she began helping to launch a national effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to prevent same-marriage.<ref>"Conservatives Visit to Oppose Gay Marriages." *East Valley Tribune*, November 18, 2003. Available at: https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/conservatives-visit-to-oppose-gay-marriages/article_73a67a75-38bd-5f8f-abbd-f814c5297353.html</ref>
Coulter also opposes civil unions<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students|url=http://neighborhoods.redeyechicago.com/lincoln-park/news-report/2011/06/02/ann-coulter-speech-at-depaul-divides-opinion/|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=[[RedEye]]|date=June 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711004755/http://neighborhoods.redeyechicago.com/lincoln-park/news-report/2011/06/02/ann-coulter-speech-at-depaul-divides-opinion/|archive-date=July 11, 2013}}</ref> and [[Marriage privatization|privatizing marriage]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-06-15.html|author=Ann Coulter|date=June 15, 2011|title=Get Rid of Government – But First Make Me President!|website=anncoulter.com|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172330/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-06-15.html|archive-date=2015-09-23|url-status=live}}</ref> When addressed with the issue of [[Rights and responsibilities of marriages in the United States|rights granted by marriage]], she said, "Gays already can visit loved ones in hospitals. They can also visit neighbors, random acquaintances, and total strangers in hospitals—just like everyone else. Gays can also pass on property to whomever they would like."<ref>{{cite news|title=Massachusetts Supreme Court abolishes capitalism!|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2003/12/04/massachusetts_supreme_court_abolishes_capitalism!/page/full/|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]|date=December 4, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010194222/http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2003/12/04/massachusetts_supreme_court_abolishes_capitalism!/page/full/|archive-date=2012-10-10|url-status=live}}</ref> She also stated that same-sex sexual intercourse was already protected under the [[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]], which prevents police from going into your home without a search warrant or court order.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2003/07/25/bowman_3/|title=Ann Coulter, woman|first=David|last=Bowman|date=July 25, 2003|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924124311/https://www.salon.com/2003/07/25/bowman_3/|archive-date=2018-09-24|url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter disagreed with repealing [[Don't Ask Don't Tell]], stating that it is not an "anti-gay position; it is a pro-military position" because "sexual bonds are disruptive to the military bond".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Defends Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Booing Gay Soldier|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/ann-coulter-defends-dont-ask-dont-tell_n_987303.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]|date=September 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220195035/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/ann-coulter-defends-dont-ask-dont-tell_n_987303.html|archive-date=2013-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref> She also stated that there is "no proof that all the discharges for homosexuality involve actual homosexuals."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/ann-coulter-goproud-gay-icon-council-chair/|title=Ann Coulter Named GOProud's "Gay Icon," Will Serve as Council Chair|access-date=September 9, 2018|work=Mother Jones|first=Asawin|last=Suebsaeng |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924115714/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/ann-coulter-goproud-gay-icon-council-chair/|archive-date=2018-09-24|url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter has expressed her opposition to treatment of LGBT people in the countries of Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-04-12.html|date=April 12, 2017 |title=Lassie, Come Home |website=www.anncoulter.com|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919003919/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-04-12.html|archive-date=2018-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_30_05_AC.html|title=Commentary –Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI |author=Ann Coulter|website=www.realclearpolitics.com|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412082725/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_30_05_AC.html|archive-date=2018-04-12|url-status=live}}</ref>
At the 2007 [[Conservative Political Action Conference|CPAC]], Coulter said, "I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media—how they keep describing [[Mitt Romney]]'s position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers", and "Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against." She added, "I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us."<ref>{{cite news|title=Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/|access-date=May 3, 2013|work=CNN|date=March 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127022338/http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/|archive-date=2014-01-27|url-status=live}}</ref>
In Coulter's 2007 book ''If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans'', in the chapter "Gays: No Gay Left Behind!", she argued that Republican policies were more pro-gay than Democratic policies. Coulter attended the 2010 HomoCon of [[GOProud]], where she gave a speech about why gays should oppose same-sex marriage.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter Loves the Gays? Inside a Surprising Culture War|url=http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ann-coulter-goproud-speech-092710|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=Esquire|date=September 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111070016/http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ann-coulter-goproud-speech-092710|archive-date=2012-01-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
At the 2011 [[Conservative Political Action Conference|CPAC]], during her question-and-answer segment, Coulter was asked about GOProud and the controversy over their inclusion at the 2011 CPAC. She boasted how she talked GOProud into dropping its support for same-sex marriage in the party's platform, saying, "The left is trying to co-opt gays, and I don't think we should let them. I think they should be on our side", and "Gays are natural conservatives".<ref>{{cite news|title=Coulter Says 'Gays Are Natural Conservatives' – To Cheers From CPAC Crowd |url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/02/coulter-says-gays-are-natural.html |access-date=January 31, 2013 |newspaper=[[Metro Weekly]] |date=February 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922134505/http://metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/02/coulter-says-gays-are-natural.html |archive-date=September 22, 2011}}</ref> Later that year, she joined advisory board for GOProud. On [[Logo TV|Logo's]] [[The A-List: Dallas]] she told gay Republican Taylor Garrett that "The gays have got to be pro-life", and "As soon as they find the [[gay gene]], guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?"<ref>{{cite news|title=Ann Coulter On 'A List: Dallas': Liberals Would Abort Gay Babies (video)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/ann-coulter-liberals-gay-abortions_n_1137277.html|access-date=January 31, 2013|newspaper=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]|date=December 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419140305/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/ann-coulter-liberals-gay-abortions_n_1137277.html|archive-date=2012-04-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== War on Drugs ===
Coulter strongly supports continuing the [[War on Drugs]].<ref>{{cite news|title=War on Drugs; Or, Conservative Inconsistency|url=http://ricochet.com/main-feed/War-on-Drugs-Or-Conservative-Inconsistency|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=[[Rob Long#Ricochet|Ricochet]]|date=March 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315125906/http://ricochet.com/main-feed/War-on-Drugs-Or-Conservative-Inconsistency|archive-date=2013-03-15|url-status=live}}</ref> However, she has said that, if there were not a [[welfare state]], she "wouldn't care" if drugs were legal.<ref>[http://nation.foxnews.com/ann-coulter/2013/02/22/ann-coulter-battles-libertarians "Ann Coulter Battles Libertarians"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330052351/http://nation.foxnews.com/ann-coulter/2013/02/22/ann-coulter-battles-libertarians |date=March 30, 2014}}. Fox News Channel. February 21, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2014.</ref> She spoke about drugs as a guest on ''[[Piers Morgan Live]]'', where she said that marijuana users "can't perform daily functions".<ref>{{cite web|last=Fung|first=Katherine|title=Ann Coulter Is Against Weed Because A Pool Guy Didn't Clean Her Pool, Or Something|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/ann-coulter-pot-economy-piers-morgan_n_4650921.html|website=Huffington Post|date=January 23, 2014|access-date=April 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803121731/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/ann-coulter-pot-economy-piers-morgan_n_4650921.html|archive-date=2016-08-03|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Bernie Sanders ===
In April 2019, Coulter said of Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] she would vote and perhaps even work for him in the [[2020 U.S. presidential election]] if he stuck to his "original position" on U.S. border policy. "If he went back to his original position, which is the pro blue-collar position—I mean, it totally makes sense with him", and "If he went back to that position, I'd vote for him, I might work for him. I don't care about the rest of the socialist stuff. Just, can we do something for ordinary Americans?"<ref>{{cite web |last=Croucher |first=Shane |title=Ann Coulter Would Vote for Bernie Sanders' Original Border Policy Despite 'The Rest of the Socialist Stuff' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-bernie-sanders-borders-policy-2020-1399991 |website=[[Newsweek]] |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=May 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504094957/https://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-bernie-sanders-borders-policy-2020-1399991 |archive-date=May 4, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/18/coulter_i_could_vote_for_bernie_sanders_if_he_returned_to_original_immigration_position.html |title=Real Clear Politics |access-date=May 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430030413/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/18/coulter_i_could_vote_for_bernie_sanders_if_he_returned_to_original_immigration_position.html |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Political activities and commentary==
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Ann Coulter has described herself as a "[[polemic]]ist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do".<ref name="polemicist">{{cite news|url=https://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/coulter.pre.dea.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430010955/http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/coulter.pre.dea.html |archive-date=April 30, 2006 |title=Conservative pundit Ann Coulter '84 to speak May 7 |last=Aloi |first=Daniel |date=April 17, 2006 |publisher=[[Cornell University]] |access-date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref> While her political activities in the past have included advising a plaintiff suing President [[Bill Clinton]] as well as considering a run for Congress, she mostly serves as a political [[Pundit (expert)|pundit]], sometimes creating [[controversy]] ranging from rowdy uprisings at some of the colleges where she speaks to protracted discussions in the media.
''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's John Cloud once observed that Coulter "likes to shock reporters by wondering aloud whether America might be better off if women lost the right to vote".<ref name="msright" /> This was in reference to her statement that "it would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950—except [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]] in '64—the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."<ref name="appmagic" /> Similarly, in an October 2007 interview with ''[[The New York Observer]]'', Coulter said:<ref name="Gurley_George">{{cite news|last=Gurley|first=George|title=Coulter Culture|url=http://www.observer.com/2007/coulter-culture|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Observer]]|date=October 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112214238/http://www.observer.com/2007/coulter-culture|archive-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref>
{{blockquote|If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care—and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'}}
Coulter has also appeared on Fox News and advocated for a poll tax and a literacy test for voters (this was in 1999, and she reiterated her support of a literacy test in 2015).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections|last=Hasen|first=Richard L.|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-300-21245-7|___location=New Haven, CT|page=66}}</ref>
===Paula Jones – Bill Clinton case===
Coulter first became a public figure shortly before becoming an unpaid legal adviser for the attorneys representing [[Paula Jones]] in her [[sexual harassment]] suit against President Bill Clinton. Coulter's friend [[George T. Conway III|George Conway]] had been asked to assist Jones' attorneys, and shortly afterward Coulter, who wrote a column about the Paula Jones case for ''[[Human Events]]'', was also asked to help, and she began writing legal briefs for the case.
Coulter later stated that she would come to mistrust the motives of Jones' head lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who by August or September 1997 was advising Jones that her case was weak and to [[legal settlement|settle]], if a favorable settlement could be negotiated.<ref name=Daley1999/><ref name=conason/> From the outset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement.<ref>Barak, Daphne. "[http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/09/23/fhead.htm Jones would have been happy with an apology]". ''[[Irish Examiner]]''. September 23, 1998. Retrieved July 10, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812211212/http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/09/23/fhead.htm |date=August 12, 2012}}</ref> However, in a later interview Coulter recounted that she herself had believed that the case was strong, that Jones was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in [[extortion|extorting]] money from the President.<ref name=Daley1999 />
David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for ''[[The Hartford Courant]]'' recounted what followed:
{{blockquote|Coulter played one particularly key role in keeping the Jones case alive. In ''Newsweek'' reporter Michael Isikoff's new book ''Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story'', Coulter is unmasked as the one who leaked word of Clinton's "distinguishing characteristic"—his reportedly bent penis that Jones said she could recognize and describe—to the news media. Her hope was to foster mistrust between the Clinton and Jones camps and forestall a settlement ... I thought if I leaked the distinguishing characteristic it would show bad faith in negotiations. [Clinton lawyer] Bob Bennett would think Jones had leaked it. Cammaratta would know he himself hadn't leaked it and would get mad at Bennett. It might stall negotiations enough for me to get through to [Jones adviser] [[Susan Carpenter-McMillan]] to tell her that I thought settling would hurt Paula, that this would ruin her reputation, and that there were other lawyers working for her. Then 36 hours later, she returned my phone call. I just wanted to help Paula. I really think Paula Jones is a hero. I don't think I could have taken the abuse she came under. She's this poor little country girl and she has the most powerful man she's ever met hitting on her sexually, then denying it and smearing her as president. And she never did anything tacky. It's not like she was going on TV or trying to make a buck out of it."<ref name=Daley1999 />}}
In his book, Isikoff also reported Coulter as saying: "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."<ref name=conason>Conason, Joe; Lyons, Gene. "[http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/04/willey/print.html Impeachment's little elves]". ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''. March 4, 2000. Retrieved July 10, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212222059/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/04/willey/print.html |date=February 12, 2006}}</ref> After the book came out, Coulter clarified her stated motives, saying:
{{blockquote|The only motive for leaking the distinguishing characteristic item that [Isikoff] gives in his book is my self-parodying remark that "it would humiliate the president" and that a settlement would foil our efforts to bring down the president ... I suppose you could take the position, as [Isikoff] does, that we were working for Jones because we thought Clinton was a lecherous, lying scumbag, but this argument gets a bit circular. You could also say that Juanita Broaddrick's secret motive in accusing Clinton of rape is that she hates Clinton because he raped her. The whole reason we didn't much like Clinton was that we could see he was the sort of man who would haul a low-level government employee like Paula to his hotel room, drop his pants, and say, "Kiss it." You know: Everything his defense said about him at the impeachment trial. It's not like we secretly disliked Clinton because of his administration's position on California's citrus cartels or something, and then set to work on some crazy scheme to destroy him using a pathological intern as our Mata Hari.<ref>Coulter, Ann (May 1999). "Spikey and me". [[George (magazine)|''George''.]]</ref>}}
The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and it was dismissed via [[summary judgment]]. The judge ruled that even if her allegations proved true, Jones did not show that she had suffered any damages, stating, "... plaintiff has not demonstrated any tangible job detriment or adverse employment action for her refusal to submit to the governor's alleged advances. The president is therefore entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of [[quid pro quo]] sexual harassment." The ruling was [[appeal]]ed by Jones' lawyers. During the pendency of the appeal, Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 ($151,000 after legal fees) in November 1998, in exchange for Jones' dismissal of the appeal. By then, the Jones lawsuit had given way to the [[Lewinsky scandal|Monica Lewinsky sex scandal]].
In October 2000, Jones revealed that she would pose for nude pictures in an adult magazine, saying she wanted to use the money to pay taxes and support her grade-school-aged children, in particular saying, "I'm wanting to put them through college and maybe set up a college fund."<ref name=larryking>Jones, Paula. "[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/24/lkl.00.html Paula Jones describes why she's posing for ''Penthouse''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225154140/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/24/lkl.00.html |date=February 25, 2007 }}". ''Larry King Live''. CNN. October 24, 2000. Retrieved October 24, 2000</ref> Coulter publicly denounced Jones, calling her "the trailer-park trash they said she was" (Coulter had earlier chastened Clinton supporters for calling Jones this name),<ref>Ann Coulter "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060213205534/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199801/ai_n8803510 "'Trailer park trash' strikes back]". ''Human Events''. January 30, 1998. Retrieved November 18, 2006</ref> after Clinton's former campaign strategist [[James Carville]] had made the widely reported remark, "Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and you'll never know what you'll find", and called Jones a "fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person".<ref name=larryking />
Coulter wrote:
{{blockquote|Paula surely was given more than a million dollars in free legal assistance from an array of legal talent she will never again encounter in her life, much less have busily working on her behalf. Some of those lawyers never asked for or received a dime for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal work performed at great professional, financial and personal cost to themselves. Others got partial payments out of the settlement. But at least they got her reputation back. And now she's thrown it away.<ref>Coulter, Ann. "[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter103000.asp Clinton sure can pick 'em] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308122818/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter103000.asp |date=March 8, 2005 }}". ''Jewish World Review''. October 30, 2000. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref>}} Jones claimed not to have been offered any help with a book deal of her own or any other additional financial help after the lawsuit.<ref name = larryking />
===Comments on Islam, Arabs, and terrorism===
Coulter's September 14, 2001, column eulogized her friend [[Barbara Olson]], killed three days earlier in the [[September 11 attacks]], and ended with a call for war:
{{blockquote|Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade ''their'' countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010914225811/http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml |archive-date=September 14, 2001 |title=This Is War |website=[[National Review]] |date=September 14, 2001 |access-date=December 10, 2011}}</ref>}}
These comments resulted in Coulter being fired as a columnist by ''National Review'', which she subsequently referred to as "squeamish girly-boys".<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal |title=Rough Sailing for the New Darling on the Racial Right |journal=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education |date=2001 |issue=34 |page=44 |id={{ProQuest|195525219}} |jstor=3134110}}</ref> Responding to this comment, Ibrahim Hooper of the [[Council on American–Islamic Relations]] remarked in the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' that before September 11, Coulter "would have faced swift repudiation from her colleagues", but "now it's accepted as legitimate commentary".<ref>Jim Ritter, "Muslims see a growing media bias", ''Chicago Sun-Times'', September 4, 2006</ref>
One day after the attacks (when death toll estimates were higher than later), Coulter asserted that only Muslims could have been behind them: "Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims—at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours."<ref name="Future widows">{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter092801.asp |author=Coulter, Ann |title= Future widows of America: Write your congressman |work=Jewish World Review |access-date=April 16, 2007 |date=September 28, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416152942/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter092801.asp |archive-date=April 16, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter was highly critical in 2002 of the [[U.S. Department of Transportation]] and especially its then-secretary [[Norman Mineta]]. Her many criticisms include their refusal to use [[racial profiling]] as a component of [[passenger security screening]].<ref>Coulter, Ann. "[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter022802.asp Mineta's Bataan death march] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826205941/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter022802.asp |date=August 26, 2005}}", ''Jewish World Review''. February 28, 2002. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref> After a group of Muslims was expelled from a [[US Airways]] flight when other passengers expressed concern, sparking a call for Muslims to boycott the airline because of the [[Flying Imams controversy|ejection from a flight of six imams]], Coulter wrote, "If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether."<ref>{{cite web |last=Coulter |first=Ann |url=http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=158 |title=What can I do to make your flight more uncomfortable? |date=November 22, 2006 |access-date=April 17, 2007 |publisher=AnnCoulter.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070326071242/http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=158 |archive-date=March 26, 2007 }}</ref>
Coulter also cited the 2002 Senate testimony of FBI whistleblower [[Coleen Rowley]], who was acclaimed for condemning her superiors for refusing to authorize a [[search warrant]] for 9-11 conspirator [[Zacarias Moussaoui]] when he refused to consent to a search of his computer. They knew that he was a Muslim in flight school who had overstayed his visa, and the [[List of intelligence agencies of France|French Intelligence Service]] had confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups. Coulter said she agreed that [[probable cause]] existed in the case, but that refusing consent, being in flight school and overstaying a visa should not constitute grounds for a search. Citing a poll which found that 98 percent of Muslims between the ages of 20 and 45 said they would not fight for Britain in the war in Afghanistan, and that 48 percent said they would fight for [[Osama bin Laden]] she asserted "any Muslim who has attended a mosque in Europe—certainly in England, where Moussaoui lived—has had 'affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups,'" so that she parsed Rowley's position as meaning that {{"'}}probable cause' existed to search Moussaoui's computer because he was a Muslim who had lived in England". Coulter says the poll was "by ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''", actually it was by Sunrise, an "[[British Asian|Asian]]" (therefore an Indian subcontinent-oriented) radio station, canvassing the opinions of 500 Muslims in Greater London (not Britain as a whole), mainly of Pakistani origin and aged between 20 and 45. Because "FBI headquarters ... refused to engage in racial profiling", they failed to uncover the 9-11 plot, Coulter asserted. "The FBI allowed thousands of Americans to be slaughtered on the altar of [[political correctness]]. What more do liberals want?"<ref>Coulter, Ann. "[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter061302.asp This whistle-blower they like] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024072903/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter061302.asp |date=October 24, 2006}}", ''Jewish World Review'' June 13, 2002. Retrieved October 1, 2006.<br />{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Michael |last2=Roy |first2=Amit |title=Britons who join Taliban to face trial |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=October 30, 2001 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/30/nmus30.xml |access-date=November 30, 2007 |___location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210143725/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F10%2F30%2Fnmus30.xml |archive-date=December 10, 2007 }}</ref>
Coulter wrote in another column that she had reviewed the [[civil rights]] lawsuits against certain airlines to determine which of them had subjected Arabs to the most "egregious discrimination" so that she could fly only that airline. She also said that the airline should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them.<ref>Coulter, Ann. "[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter043004.asp Arab hijackers now eligible for pre-boarding] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811031922/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter043004.asp |date=August 11, 2006 }}" ''Jewish World Review'' April 29, 2004. Retrieved July 11, 2006.</ref> In an interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'' she said, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most [[civil rights]] lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer, [[Jonathan Freedland]], replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use [[flying carpet]]s."<ref name=appmagic>{{cite news|last=Freedland|first=Jonathan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/may/17/pressandpublishing.usnews|title=An appalling magic|work=The Guardian|date=May 17, 2003|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030602200513/http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,957670,00.html|archive-date=June 2, 2003|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the wake of the [[Boston Marathon bombing]], Coulter told ''[[Hannity]]'' host [[Sean Hannity]] that the wife of bombing suspect [[Tamerlan Tsarnaev]] should be jailed for wearing a [[hijab]]. Coulter continued by saying "Assimilating immigrants into our culture isn't really working. They're assimilating us into their culture."<ref>{{cite web |last=Webster |first=Stephen C |url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/23/coulter-boston-suspects-widow-ought-to-be-in-prison-for-wearing-a-hijab/ |title=Coulter: Boston suspect's widow 'ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab' |website=Raw Story |date=April 23, 2013 |access-date=April 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502011054/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/23/coulter-boston-suspects-widow-ought-to-be-in-prison-for-wearing-a-hijab/ |archive-date=May 2, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
===2013 CPAC Conference===
In March 2013, Coulter was one of the keynote speakers at the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]], where she made references to New Jersey Governor [[Chris Christie]]'s weight ("CPAC had to cut back on its speakers this year about 300 pounds") and progressive activist [[Sandra Fluke]]'s hairdo. (Coulter quipped that Fluke didn't need birth control pills because "that haircut is birth control enough".) Coulter advocated against a path to citizenship for [[undocumented immigrants]] because such new citizens would never vote for Republican candidates: "If amnesty goes through, America becomes California and no Republican will ever win another election."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-blasts-chris-christie-says-hes-off-my-list-for-2016-in-fiery-cpac-speech/|title=Ann Coulter Blasts Chris Christie, Says He's 'Off My List' For 2016 In Fiery CPAC Speech|author=Garrett Quinn|date=March 16, 2013|website=Mediaite|access-date=May 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425080744/http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-blasts-chris-christie-says-hes-off-my-list-for-2016-in-fiery-cpac-speech/|archive-date=April 25, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="huffpost.130316">{{cite web|url=http://huff.to/16AsRy4|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130418152825/http://huff.to/16AsRy4|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2013|title=Ann Coulter CPAC: Pundit Tells Chris Christie Weight Joke, Calls Bill Clinton 'Forcible Rapist'|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=March 16, 2013|website=The Huffington Post|access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref>
===VDARE===
Since 2013, Coulter has been a contributor to [[VDARE]], a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] website and blog founded by anti-immigration activist and [[paleo-conservative]] [[Peter Brimelow]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edison Hayden |first1=Michael |last2=Gais |first2=Hannah |title=White Nationalists Sought Resumes for Trump White House, Emails Show |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/12/14/white-nationalists-sought-resumes-trump-white-house-emails-show |access-date=August 15, 2021 |work=HateWatch |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=December 20, 2020}}</ref> [[Michael Malice]] has said that "Coulter and VDARE can be considered the furthest edge of the [[Overton Window]]" as any political position further to the right would be too heretical to find mainstream success.<ref>{{cite book |last=Malice |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Malice |title=The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics |date=May 14, 2019 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |___location=New York, N.Y. |isbn=978-1-250-15467-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6FuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref> VDARE is controversial because of its alleged [[white supremacist]] rhetoric and support of [[scientific racism]] and [[white nationalism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Adam |title=Fanaticism, racism, and rage online: corrupting the digital sphere |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |___location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=978-3-319-51424-6 |page=76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EcwWDgAAQBAJ&q=%22vdare%22%20coulter&pg=PA76 |quote=VDARE's web contributors have included noted conservative pundits lke Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin, as well as noted white supremacists such as Jared Taylor and John Philippe Rushton ... While the friends it has acquired in politics and journalism have long protected VDARE from greater scrutiny, its digital record has gradually exposed its character as a racially consumed, xenophobic community}}<br />{{cite web|date=May 12, 2006|title=Michelle Malkin's White Supremacist Ties|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-koppelman/michelle-malkins-white-su_b_20873.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324162153/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-koppelman/michelle-malkins-white-su_b_20873.html|archive-date=March 24, 2015|access-date=March 24, 2015|work=The Huffington Post}}<br />{{cite web |title=VDARE |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=August 15, 2021}}<br />{{cite news|last=Dewey|first=Caitlin|date=March 17, 2015|title=Amazon, PayPal and Spotify inadvertently fund white supremacists. Here's how|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/17/amazon-paypal-and-spotify-inadvertently-fund-white-supremacists-heres-how/|url-status=live|access-date=August 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811105806/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/17/amazon-paypal-and-spotify-inadvertently-fund-white-supremacists-heres-how/|archive-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref>
== Candidate endorsements ==
Coulter initially supported [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush's presidency]], but later criticized its approach to immigration. She endorsed [[Duncan L. Hunter|Duncan Hunter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/ann-coulter-endorses-the-magnificent-duncan-hunter-for-president/|title=Ann Coulter endorses the "magnificent" Duncan Hunter for President - John Hawkins' Right Wing News|date=July 3, 2007|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614121928/http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/ann-coulter-endorses-the-magnificent-duncan-hunter-for-president/|archive-date=2018-06-14|url-status=live}}</ref> and later [[Mitt Romney]] in the [[Republican Party presidential primaries, 2008|2008 Republican presidential primaries]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/16/coulter-endorses-romney/|title=Coulter endorses Romney|date=January 16, 2008|newspaper=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116082008/http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/16/coulter-endorses-romney/|archive-date=2014-01-16|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012|2012 Republican presidential primary]] and [[2012 United States presidential election|presidential run]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Coulter Gives Up, Endorses Mitt Romney: 'You've Got To Go With What You Have'|url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-gives-up-endorses-mitt-romney-youve-got-to-go-with-what-you-have/|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=[[Mediaite]]|date=October 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407095029/http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-gives-up-endorses-mitt-romney-youve-got-to-go-with-what-you-have/|archive-date=2013-04-07|url-status=live}}</ref> In the [[Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016|2016 Republican Party presidential primaries]], she endorsed [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thebullelephant.com/ann-coulter-endorses-donald-trump/|title=Ann Coulter Endorses Donald Trump – The Bull Elephant|website=The Bull Elephant|date=August 3, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319173757/http://thebullelephant.com/ann-coulter-endorses-donald-trump/|archive-date=March 19, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter later distanced herself from Trump following arguments over immigration policies; she called for his impeachment in September 2017, saying "Put a fork in Trump, he's dead".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/15/right-wing-commentator-ann-coulter-lashes-trump-dreamers/|title=Right wing commentator Ann Coulter lashes out at Trump over 'dreamers'|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=September 15, 2017|access-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221062920/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/15/right-wing-commentator-ann-coulter-lashes-trump-dreamers/|archive-date=February 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She described herself in 2018 as a "former Trumper";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2018/04/ann_coulter_coming_to_metairie.html|title=Ann Coulter says she's now a 'Former Trumper' - Opinion|date=April 2, 2018 |access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714050837/https://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2018/04/ann_coulter_coming_to_metairie.html|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> in a 2020 speech to a [[Turning Point USA]] event, she said, "The Trump agenda without Trump would be a lot easier. Our new motto should be 'Going on with [[Trumpism]] without Trump.' That's a winning strategy."<ref>Jonathan Kyncl, [https://www.oudaily.com/news/going-on-with-trumpism-without-trump-ann-coulter-speaks-at-ou-turning-point-usa-student/article_c8d5cb34-1ff0-11eb-ad16-2357d3c4ab89.html 'Going on with Trumpism without Trump,' Ann Coulter speaks at OU Turning Point USA student event], ''OU Daily'' (November 6, 2020).</ref> Coulter blamed Trump's son-in-law and advisor [[Jared Kushner]] for Trump's 2020 election loss, and said that Trump had failed to deliver for the white working class.<ref>Devika Desai, [https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/ann-coulter-blames-wonderboy-jared-kushner-for-trumps-2020-election-defeat-521778/ Ann Coulter blames 'wonderboy' Jared Kushner for Trump's 2020 election defeat], Postmedia News (November 23, 2020).</ref> In August 2024, Coulter spoke out against Donald Trump saying he was an "awful, awful person.” However, she said she would vote for him in the 2024 election because she liked his running mate [[JD Vance]] and how we needed "a wall on the border". "Can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left behind people”, Coulter said.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones|first=Kipp|date=2024-08-11 |title=Ann Coulter Bashes Trump as an 'Awful, Awful Person' — But Says She's Voting for Him Anyway Because of JD Vance |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ann-coulter-bashes-trump-as-an-awful-awful-person-but-says-she-s-voting-for-him-anyway-because-of-jd-vance/ar-AA1oCAsR?ocid=BingNewsVerp |access-date=2024-08-11 |website=[[MSN]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
Other candidates Coulter has endorsed include [[Greg Brannon]] ([[United States Senate election in North Carolina, 2014#Candidates 2|2014 Republican primary candidate for North Carolina Senator]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/12/3365506/coulter-endorses-brannon-bashes.html|title=Coulter endorses Brannon, bashes Tillis|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310183141/http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/12/3365506/coulter-endorses-brannon-bashes.html|archive-date=March 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Paul Nehlen]] ([[United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, 2016#Republican Primary|2016 Republican primary candidate for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2016/08/06/ann-coulter-rallies-paul-nehlen-supporters/88342144/ |title=Ann Coulter rallies Paul Nehlen supporters |website=Jsonline.com |date=August 6, 2016 |access-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823230808/http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2016/08/06/ann-coulter-rallies-paul-nehlen-supporters/88342144/ |archive-date=August 23, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Mo Brooks]] ([[United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017#Eliminated in primary|2017 Republican primary candidate for Alabama Senator]]), and [[Roy Moore]] ([[United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017|2017 Republican candidate for Alabama Senator]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-12-13.html|title=December 13, 2017 - WHY I SECRETLY WANTED MOORE TO LOSE: BROOKS 2020!|website=www.anncoulter.com|date=December 13, 2017|access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223084640/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-12-13.html|archive-date=2017-12-23|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Controversies ==
{{Criticism section|date=May 2025}}
=== Antisemitism accusations ===
Coulter was accused of [[antisemitism]] in an October 8, 2007, interview with [[Donny Deutsch]] on ''[[The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch|The Big Idea]]''. During the interview, Coulter stated that the United States is a Christian nation, and said that she wants "Jews to be perfected, as they say" (referring to them being converted to Christianity).<ref name="perfected_jews">{{cite news|title=Coulter: We Want Jews To Be "Perfected"|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coulter-we-want-jews-to-be-perfected/|access-date=September 27, 2011|work=[[CBS News]]|date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629075450/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/11/national/main3358373.shtml|archive-date=2011-06-29|url-status=live}}</ref> Deutsch, a practicing Jew, implied that this was an anti-semitic remark, but Coulter said she did not consider it to be a hateful comment.<ref name="Perfected_Jews_FOX">{{cite news|title=Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to be Perfected by Becoming Christians'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/columnist-ann-coulter-shocks-cable-tv-show-declaring-jews-need-to-be-perfected-by-becoming-christians|access-date=September 27, 2011|publisher=[[Fox News]]|date=October 11, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007220454/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301216,00.html|archive-date=October 7, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Deutsch_response">{{cite news|title=Coulter draws fire over remarks about Jews|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21257498|access-date=September 27, 2011|work=[[NBC News]]|date=October 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102153428/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21257498/|archive-date=November 2, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Coulter's comments on the show were condemned by the [[Anti-Defamation League]], [[American Jewish Committee]] and [[Bradley Burston]],<ref>Burston, B. (October 14, 2007). Ann Coulter's dream of a Jew-free America. [https://www.haaretz.com/news/ann-coulter-s-dream-of-a-jew-free-america-1.231042 Haaretz.com archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809221434/http://www.haaretz.com/news/ann-coulter-s-dream-of-a-jew-free-america-1.231042 |date=2017-08-09 }}. Retrieved May 19, 2015.</ref> and the [[National Jewish Democratic Council]] asked media outlets to cease inviting Coulter as a guest commentator.<ref name="Meyer_Dick">{{cite news|last=Meyer|first=Dick|title=Jewish Groups Condemn, Boycott Ann Coulter|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jewish-groups-condemn-boycott-ann-coulter/|access-date=September 27, 2011|work=[[CBS News]]|date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524181200/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/12/national/main3361954.shtml|archive-date=2011-05-24|url-status=live}}</ref> Talk show host [[Dennis Prager]], while disagreeing with her comments, said that they were not "anti-semitic", noting, "There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on [[CNBC]] that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the [[Israel|Jewish state]]. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?"<ref>{{cite web |title=Ann Coulter's Expletive Might Be her Way of 'Perfecting' Jews and the GOP |url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ann-coulters-expletive-might-be-her-way-of-perfecting-jews-and-the-gop/2015/09/20/3/ |website=JewishPress.com |date=September 20, 2015 |publisher=JNi.Media |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126162405/https://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ann-coulters-expletive-might-be-her-way-of-perfecting-jews-and-the-gop/2015/09/20/3/ |archive-date=2019-01-26 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Prager_Dennis">{{cite news|last=Prager|first=Dennis|title=Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian-So What?|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2007/10/16/ann_coulter_wants_jews_to_become_christian_--_so_what|access-date=September 27, 2011|publisher=Townhall.com|date=October 16, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112093351/http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2007/10/16/ann_coulter_wants_jews_to_become_christian_--_so_what|archive-date=2011-11-12|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Prager |first1=Dennis |title=No, Ann Coulter Is Not an Anti-Semite |url=https://forward.com/opinion/321613/no-ann-coulter-is-not-an-anti-semite/ |access-date=November 7, 2018 |agency=The Forward Association |date=September 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108065756/https://forward.com/opinion/321613/no-ann-coulter-is-not-an-anti-semite/ |archive-date=2018-11-08 |url-status=live }}</ref> Conservative activist [[David Horowitz]] also defended Coulter against the allegation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Chris |title=Horowitz Defends Coulter's Jewish Remark: It's All Donnie Deutsch's Fault |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-nelson/horowitz-defends-coulters_b_70734.html |website=Huffington Post |date=November 2007 |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822052112/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-nelson/horowitz-defends-coulters_b_70734.html |archive-date=2015-08-22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Coulter in September 2015 tweeted in response to multiple candidates' references to Israel during a Republican presidential primary debate, "How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?"<ref name=debate>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ann-coulter-sparks-outrage-anti-semitic-tweet-article-1.2363973|title=Ann Coulter sparks outrage over 'anti-Semitic' tweet, rant about 'Jews' during GOP debate|last=Chan|first=Melissa|work=Daily News|___location=New York|date=September 17, 2015|access-date=September 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919191555/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ann-coulter-sparks-outrage-anti-semitic-tweet-article-1.2363973|archive-date=2015-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref> The Anti-Defamation League referred to the tweets as "ugly, spiteful and anti-Semitic".<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/ann-coulter-tweets.html|title=ADL Calls Ann Coulter's Tweets "Ugly, Spiteful and Anti-Semitic"|date=September 17, 2015|access-date=September 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920015346/http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/ann-coulter-tweets.html|archive-date=2015-09-20|url-status=live}}</ref> In response to accusations of anti-Semitism, she tweeted "I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan. Didn't need to hear applause lines about them all night."<ref name=debate/>
=== Plagiarism accusations ===
In October 2001, Coulter was accused of plagiarism for her 1998 book ''High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton'' by Michael Chapman, a columnist for the journal ''Human Events'' who claims that passages were taken from a supplement he wrote for the journal in 1997 titled "A Case for Impeachment".<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
On the July 5, 2006, episode of ''[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]'' on [[MSNBC]], guest John Barrie, the CEO of [[iParadigms]], offered his professional opinion that Coulter plagiarized in her book ''Godless'' as well as in her columns over the previous year.<ref name="Dietz">{{cite news|last=Dietz|first=Rob|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2006/07/06/olbermann-hosted-plagiarism-expert-to-spell-out/136106|title=Olbermann hosted plagiarism expert to spell out allegations against Coulter|work=Media Matters for America|date=July 6, 2006|access-date=August 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831035315/https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2006/07/06/olbermann-hosted-plagiarism-expert-to-spell-out/136106|archive-date=2018-08-31}}</ref> Barrie ran "Godless" through iThenticate, his company's machine, which is able to scan works and compare them to existing texts. He found a 25-word section of the text that was "virtually word-for-word" matched with a Planned Parenthood pamphlet and a 33-word section almost duplicating a 1999 article from the ''Portland Press'' as some examples of evidence.<ref name="Dietz"/> Barrie also said that it was "very, very difficult to try to determine whether Ann Coulter was citing that material or whether she was just trying to pass it off".<ref name="Dietz"/>
Left-wing activist group<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-advertisers-lie-drop-media-matters-1424399 |title = Liberal activist group targets Fox News advertisers with "Drop Fox" ad, encourages them to stop funding lies|website = [[Newsweek]]|first=Benjamin|last=Fearnow|date = May 13, 2019}}</ref> [[Media Matters for America]] has appealed to Random House publishing to further investigate Coulter's work.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/07/07/media-matters-asks-random-house-to-investigate/136111|title=Media Matters asks Random House to investigate Coulter plagiarism allegations|date=October 10, 2007|newspaper=Media Matters for America|access-date=October 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130111549/http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/07/07/media-matters-asks-random-house-to-investigate/136111|archive-date=2016-11-30|url-status=live}}</ref> The syndicator of her columns cleared her of the plagiarism charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-07-11-0607110267-story.html|title=Sorry, harpies--syndicator sees no Coulter plagiarism|last=Bowles|first=Cheryl|date=July 11, 2006|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116090017/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-07-11-0607110267-story.html|archive-date=2018-11-16|url-status=live}}</ref> Universal Press Syndicate and Crown Books also defended Coulter against the charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/07/11/Syndicate-supports-Ann-Coulter/90741152652128/?sl=3|title=Syndicate supports Ann Coulter|date=July 11, 2006|work=United Press International|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108105102/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/07/11/Syndicate-supports-Ann-Coulter/90741152652128/?sl=3|archive-date=2018-11-08|url-status=live}}</ref>
Columnist Bill Nemitz from the ''[[Portland Press Herald]]'' accused Coulter of plagiarizing a very specific sentence from his newspaper in her book ''Godless'', but he also acknowledged that one sentence is insufficient grounds for filing suit.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wonder how Ann Coulter fills her books? |last=Nemitz |first=Bill |date=July 23, 2006 |work=Portland Press Herald }}</ref>
===Cyberbullying===
In August 2024, Coulter received widespread criticism for a tweet with the comment "Talk about weird ...", referring to Democratic vice presidential nominee [[Tim Walz]]'s 17-year-old son, who has [[nonverbal learning disorder]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Kaitlin |date=2024-08-22 |title=What is a nonverbal learning disorder? Tim Walz's son Gus' condition, explained |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nonverbal-learning-disorder-tim-walzs-son-gus-condition-explained-rcna167804 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> crying during his father's acceptance speech at the [[2024 Democratic National Convention]].<ref>{{cite news|author=TOI World Desk|date=August 22, 2024|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/ann-coulter-called-bully-soulless-after-her-weird-attack-on-gus-walz/articleshow/112718636.cms|title=Ann Coulter called 'bully', 'soulless' after her 'weird' attack on Gus Walz|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=August 22, 2024}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Booker Houston]] launched a scathing viral rebuke.<ref name="DailyBeast">{{cite web
|last=Adolphus
|first=Emell Derra
|title=Comedian Whose Gus Walz Defense Went Viral Has 'Always Hated' Ann Coulter
|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/comedian-elizabeth-booker-houstons-angry-ann-coulter-takedown-goes-viral
|website=The Daily Beast
|date=2024-08-25
|access-date=2025-07-21
}}</ref> The tweet was deleted shortly after it was posted.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lavine|first=Owen|date=August 22, 2024|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/social-media-slams-ann-coulter-for-heartless-gus-walz-tweet|title=Ann Coulter Deletes Heartless Gus Walz Tweet After Backlash|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=August 22, 2024}}</ref>
===Native Americans===
In a 2025 response on [[Twitter|X]] to social commentary from [[Navajo]] professor Melanie Yazzie speaking at the Socialism 2025 conference, Coulter tweeted, "We didn't kill enough Indians". Her comments were labeled hate speech by [[Cherokee Nation]] Principal Chief [[Chuck Hoskin Jr.]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Sharfman|first=Alexandra|title= Cherokee Nation chief condemns Ann Coulter's post as dangerous hate speech against Natives|url=https://ktul.com/newsletter-daily/cherokee-nation-chief-condemns-ann-coulters-post-as-dangerous-hate-speech-against-natives-x-reply-socialism-2025-conference-indigenous-people-native-american-conservative-commentator-author-attack-marginalized-group-dehumanize|work=[[KTUL]]|date=July 7, 2025|accessdate=July 7, 2025}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Coulter has been engaged several times, but she has never married and has no children.<ref name="pickfights"/> After the [[September 11 attacks]], she dated a Muslim boyfriend.<ref>{{cite video |people=Ann Coulter |date=August 18, 2024 |title=Ann Coulter Speaks on Liberals, Islam, and More |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IASCrYuUg1k |access-date=August 29, 2024 |publisher=Conservative News |___location=YouTube}}</ref> She has dated ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' founder and publisher [[Bob Guccione Jr.]]<ref name="arm candy"/> and conservative writer [[Dinesh D'Souza]].<ref name="coultergeist">{{cite news|url=https://observer.com/2002/08/coultergeist|title=Coultergeist|last=Gurley|first=George|date=August 25, 2002|work=[[The New York Observer]]|access-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809164155/http://www.observer.com/2002/08/coultergeist/|archive-date=August 9, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Peretz|first=Evgenia|date=2015-04-09|title=Get a Rare Glimpse of Dinesh D'Souza's Life After Conviction|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/dinesh-dsouza-video-life-after-conviction|access-date=2021-08-12|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|language=en-US}}</ref> In October 2007, she began dating [[Andrew Stein]], the former president of the [[New York City Council]], a liberal Democrat. On January 7, 2008, however, Stein told the ''New York Post'' that the relationship was over, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/01/split_ann_coulter_and_andrew_s.html|title=SPLIT!!!!! Ann Coulter and Andrew Stein|date=January 7, 2008|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=May 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011052935/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/01/split_ann_coulter_and_andrew_s.html|archive-date=October 11, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013 it was reported that Coulter was dating actor [[Jimmie Walker]]. Coulter responded to the rumors by saying "He’s the one spreading that [dating] rumor! No, we’re great friends. We do a lot of stuff together. … He is so hilarious, so I see him a lot when I’m in L.A., but we are not technically dating.” In 2017, [[Norman Lear]], who created the television [[sitcom]] ''[[Good Times]]'' in which Walker starred, said of Walker "I love him; he’s a wonderful guy. But I’ll tell you something about him that’ll astound you: He dates Ann Coulter.” Coulter responded to Lear's comments by saying "This rumor spreads every now and then, but it’s never been true. We’re great friends. He’s hilarious and a Republican. Now, that’s news!”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clarendon|first=Dan|date=2020-12-08 |title=Ann Coulter Has Good Times, Not Romance, With 'Good Times' Star Jimmie Walker |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/ann-coulter-husband|access-date=2024-08-11 |website=distractify.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
[[Kellyanne Conway]], who refers to Coulter as a friend, told ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine in 2017 that Coulter "started dating her security guard probably ten years ago because she couldn't see anybody else".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html|title=Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump's America|first=Olivia|last=Nuzzi|date=March 18, 2017|access-date=March 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320193646/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html|archive-date=March 20, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
Coulter owns a house, bought in 2005, in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], Florida, a [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]] in [[Manhattan]], and an apartment in Los Angeles. She was a voter in Connecticut in 2004 before moving to Palm Beach.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2007/05/12/ann-coulter-is-cleared-in-probe-of-election/31524016007/|title=Ann Coulter is cleared in probe of election|website=Gainesville Sun}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New Image |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html |date=October 8, 2010 |access-date=May 3, 2013 |first=Laura M. |last=Holson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230164940/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10coulter.html |archive-date=December 30, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Lisberg, Adam. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930063829/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2006/06/08/2006-06-08_her_disputed_elex_ballot_sparks_probe_in.html Her disputed elex ballot sparks probe in Florida]". ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]''. June 8, 2006. Retrieved August 21, 2007.</ref>
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|year=1998
|title=High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
|___location=Washington, D.C.; Lanham, MD
|publisher=Regnery Pub.
|isbn=978-0-89526-360-5
|title-link=High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year=2002
|title=Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown
|isbn=978-1-4000-4661-4
|title-link=Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year=2003
|title=Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown Forum
|isbn=978-1-4000-5030-7
|title-link=Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year=2004
|title=How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown Forum
|isbn=978-1-4000-5418-3
|title-link=How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year=2006
|title=Godless: The Church of Liberalism
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown Forum
|isbn=978-1-4000-5420-6
|title-link=Godless: The Church of Liberalism
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2007
|title=If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown Forum
|isbn=978-0-307-35345-0
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2009
|title=Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown Forum
|isbn=978-0-307-35346-7
|title-link=Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2011
|title=Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
|___location=New York
|publisher=Crown Forum
|isbn=978-0-307-35348-1
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2012
|title=Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
|___location=New York
|publisher=Sentinel
|isbn=978-1-59523-099-7
|title-link=Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2013
|title=Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican
|___location=Washington, D.C.
|publisher=Regnery Publishing
|isbn=978-1-62157-191-9
|title-link=Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2015
|title=Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
|___location=Washington, D.C.
|publisher=Regnery Publishing
|isbn=978-1-62157-267-1
|title-link=¡Adios, America!
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year= 2016
|title=In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!
|___location=New York
|publisher=Sentinel
|isbn=978-0-7352-1446-0
|title-link=In Trump We Trust
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Coulter
|first=Ann H.
|author-mask=2
|year=2018
|title=Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind
|___location=New York
|publisher=Sentinel
|isbn=978-0-525-54007-6
|title-link=Resistance Is Futile!
}}
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