The legal durability of President Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda remains a live question in Washington, with trade scholars and legal experts examining whether the administration’s use of emergency economic powers…
The question of who is automatically an American citizen at birth has been contested since the republic’s founding. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that preserves…
The independence of federal regulatory agencies — long treated as a structural safeguard against shifting political winds — is now in serious question after a landmark Supreme Court decision handed…
A federal appeals court has dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten mail-in ballot rules ahead of November elections, handing a coalition of Democratic-led states a significant…
The Trump administration’s legal campaign against sanctuary cities and states is expanding at a pace unlike anything seen in previous administrations, with the Justice Department now having filed 27 lawsuits…
Why It Matters The Trump administration’s push against the International Criminal Court raises a fundamental question for American taxpayers and constitutional conservatives: should unelected foreign judges hold any power over…
A fractured Supreme Court agrees on one principle: naming a constitutional justification is not the same as establishing one.
When the Supreme Court resolves a hard case on grounds it refuses to name, it hands down a verdict and withholds the law.
A continental republic divided against itself need not break — if it remembers why the framers scattered power in the first place.
A judiciary that legislates relieves the people of the duty to persuade one another. The case for courts that interpret and legislatures that decide.