Staggered 18-year terms would bring regular turnover to the bench. The result would be a Court that better reflects prevailing public values.
And that means the Court, by deciding this case, exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution. . . . [T]he majority overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches. . . . I respectfully dissent . . .
As negotiations with congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling drag on, at least five U.S. senators are circulating a letter that urges President Joe Biden to prepare to invoke the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The party needs to take its cue from America’s most celebrated leaders, who had no fear of talking directly to the public about the Constitution.
The Second Amendment was intended in the first instance to protect slaveholders from the people they owned.
Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority
The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.
This book is a detailed critique of the judicial philosophy to which the current majority of the Supreme Court of the United States adheres.
On “Repeal Day,” remember that the war against alcohol was ultimately a war against political corruption and unbridled capitalism.
The Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action revealed just how weak the right-wing position is—but the GOP justices will overturn the policy anyway.
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