It is an irony of American legal history that the U.S. Supreme Court, armed with the power of judicial review to police constitutional...

Constitutional conversations about the Supreme Court often begin with Alexander Hamilton’s famous description of the judiciary in...

The Supreme Court’s pattern of deference to the executive has rocked our constitutional foundations and invited presidential disregard of...

The Declaration of Independence, which Abraham Lincoln called the “sheet anchor of the republic,”  spurred the articulation of American...

The Trump Administration’s inability to identify persuasive legal footing for Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to bomb Iran, whether on...

The confluence of the 250th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Army, President Donald Trump’s deployment of the California National...

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has engaged in a sustained program to scramble our constitutional arrangements and upend...

The ongoing efforts of federal judges to contain President Donald Trump’s usurpation of congressional authority reflects an enduring...

Reporting from the Wall Street Journal over the Memorial Day weekend that a security committee at the federal Judicial Conference in...

Few provisions of the Constitution speak with the clarity of the Emoluments Clause which, if obeyed by President Donald Trump, prohibits...

Many Americans may have missed this week the passing of Justice David Souter, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2009, after a...

In an interview on May 4, 2025, with Kristen Welker, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” President Donald Trump was asked: “Don’t you need to...

One of the more remarkable features of President Donald Trump’s ongoing, yet unfulfilled, effort in the first 100 days of his second term...

President Trump’s continued defiance of a federal court order, embraced by the U.S. Supreme Court, to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed the Trump Administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an infamous...

DOGE is not what it purports to be. The indiscriminate, arbitrary cuts across dozens of federal agencies reflect neither its...

The overwhelming, mushrooming growth of presidential power in both foreign and domestic affairs, marked by executive aggrandizement and...

In the spring of 1952, President Harry Truman faced a nationwide strike that he feared would undermine the production of steel and thus...

It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats and a Civil War, before the English Constitution secured for Parliament the...

The Trump Administration’s encirclement of the Constitution, laid bare in federal court findings that President Trump has usurped the...