No doctrine has posed a greater threat to the U.S. Constitution than the flawed assertion of state sovereignty. It represented the...

“Federalism,” which refers to the allocation of powers between the federal and state governments, has been a source of contention since...

When 17-year old Darnella Frazier used her cell phone on May 25, 2020, to record the murder of George Floyd, a horrifying episode which,...

President Biden recently signed an executive order creating a bi-partisan commission that will study U.S. Supreme Court reform and, among...

The concept of the “Personal Constitution,” which we introduced in this column last week, is personified in the First Amendment freedoms,...

Together, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution form what Gunnar Myrdal called, the “American Creed.” The...

The introduction of H.R. 51, a bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state—the “Washington, Douglas Commonwealth”--would grant its...

As we have seen in our recent discussion of tests employed by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the parameters of speech afforded...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s invention in 1919, in Schenck v. United States, of the Clear and Present Danger Test, provided little...

The question of governmental authority to punish speech in the name of national security came before the Supreme Court for the first time...

Does the government have authority to curtail speech that might cause injury to our national security?

The guarantee of freedom of speech, central to Americans’ participation in self-governance and the life of the nation...

The U.S. Constitution is all-Broadway, all the time. Americans may not realize its center stage presence in the life of the nation, but

The forthcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump raises a host of constitutional questions...

Does the U.S. Senate have the authority to hold an impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump?

Sometime soon, private citizen Donald Trump will become the first former president to face a Senate impeachment trial...

Memories of the footage of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, on January 6, 2021, will be forever etched in the minds of the citizenry.

President Donald Trump’s assertion of constitutional authority to grant himself a pardon was effectively blocked on January 13...

To its horror, America witnessed on January 6, 2021, an insurrection. Millions watched, in real time...

Efforts by President Donald Trump and congressional republicans to subvert the ceremonial counting of electoral votes is a witches' brew...