Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...

Over at Common Ground Democracy, I’ve posted “The Senate Has Surrendered Its Constitutional Responsibilities,” explaining that the existing electoral system has caused the Senate to fail in its ...

The beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by a surge in executive orders, some of which have ...

In 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall first expressed the principle that while Congress makes the laws and the president ...

Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of ...

Here is the abstract: This essay analyzes how the U.S. constitutional order responds to democratic crisis, by examining how the Supreme Court adjudicated cases related to … Continue reading “Elections ...

Vance is undoubtedly setting the stage for the inevitable: Trump’s flouting of federal court orders, which, given Congress’s ...

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common ...

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue to sideline Congress and the courts in remaking American government, some ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is putting up a desperate fight for his political life at Seoul’s Constitutional Court after being impeached and arrested for his short-lived imposition of martial ...

Constitutional battle over birthright citizenshipWilliam Davenport Mercer, a distinguished lecturer at the University of Tennessee's law school, believes the issue of birthright citizenship is ...