RALEIGH — Has there even been a point of time in which so many public controversies rest on a single, abstract principle of constitutional government? I can’t think of one. The principle in question ...
Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.
New Mexico made history last month. The Bernalillo County Commission debated and approved the resolution titled, “Defending our U.S. Constitution and Separation of Powers.” I was there as the first ...
President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency may be hogging all the headlines, but it is the steps Trump has taken to restore the Constitution’s original understanding of the ...
The Supreme Court will hear cases next week on the separation of powers and campaign expense limits. Justices will listen to arguments in Trump v. Slaughter and National Republican Senatorial ...
As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Most surprisingly to me, the court ...
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] The ...
In Employment Division v. Smith, Justice Scalia identified the concept of hybrid rights: a restriction that targets two constitutional rights would be reviewed with heightened scrutiny. For example, a ...
By MICHEAL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 After speaking to South Green Elementary fifth graders for roughly an hour about the separation of powers, ...
Last week, the Supreme Court denied President Trump’s request to block payment of $2 billion that Congress had already ...
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