The New Yorker11d
Why “Constitutional Crisis” Fails to Capture Trump’s Attack on the Rule of Law
The Administration’s defiance of Congress and the judiciary has both flouted and made use of the country’s legal system.
DC Circuit Upholds District Court Order Blocking Deportations Under The Alien Enemies Act
Earlier today, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a district court temporary restraining order blocking the ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune10d
Deport case tests the Constitution: Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act challenges role of the courts
The fight in Federal Judge James Boasberg’s D.C. courtroom over whether President Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to ... over the strength of our constitutional system.
Alien and Sedition Acts were reviled in their time, and John Adams was not sorry to see them go
John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...
The Salt Lake Tribune7d
Opinion: Trump has gone from unconstitutional to anti-constitutional
An unconstitutional act is one that violates some aspect of the Constitution as understood by the courts, although the public and its representatives are also free to make claims about the ...
New Republic19d
The Supreme Court Is at a Fork in the Road on Gun Rights
The Supreme Court’s preferred method of interpreting the Constitution is originalism ... existed when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. Others extend that analysis to the laws in ...
Would you pass the U.S. citizenship test? 10 questions to challenge you
Each potential citizen faces 10 randomly selected questions from an official list of 100- and they must answer at least six ...
The Law and You: What does 'birthright citizenship' mean?
It is extremely difficult to change the U.S. Constitution. It is not simply waving a pen or a magic wand. The Constitution itself, in Article V, defines the process. For a proposal to become an ...
Trump’s defiance of a federal court order fuels a constitutional crisis − a legal scholar unpacks the complicated case
The current case focused on the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants raises concerns about whether the president will ...
Protests are as American as the Tea Party. But there have to be limits: Bob Paulson
Fifty-five years ago, fresh-faced college freshmen like me arrived on Miami of Ohio’s campus just months after that spring’s ...
Reason11d
National Constitution Center Podcast on the Alien Enemies Act and Mahmoud Khalil Immigration Cases [Updated]
The National Constitution Center recently recorded a podcast on the currently ongoing Alien Enemies Act litigation, and the Mahmoud Khalil deportation/free speech case. The participants were Prof.