Last week, President Obama made news when he suggested that it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a law ...
As an attorney who has argued a number of appellate cases, I can testify that judges' questions during oral arguments are not necessarily a good ...
Ross Douthat at The New York Times tackles an under-addressed question about the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate to purchase health insurance: How exactly did ...
The Supreme Court released a new ruling that takes an interesting stand for the judgment of the jury. From The Christian Science Monitor (...
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of ...
An appeals court has made permanent their injunction against a federal judge whose ruling blocked federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The court had ...
Not surprisingly, the Obama administration is embracing the Bush-era practice of expanding federal preemption. In short, federal preemption is the idea that any federal law ...
In a breathtaking act of judicial overreach, a federal judge in the Golden State overturned California's Proposition 8 recognizing "marriage" as valid only ...
The argument that the Constitution is a living document that may be reshaped from time to time to keep it relevant to a rapidly changing ...
In the hub-bub surrounding any Supreme Court nomination, people consistently focus on how the nominee interprets the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence is largely ignored, ...
