Reporting from the Wall Street Journal over the Memorial Day weekend that a security committee at the federal Judicial Conference in...

Few provisions of the Constitution speak with the clarity of the Emoluments Clause which, if obeyed by President Donald Trump, prohibits...

Many Americans may have missed this week the passing of Justice David Souter, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2009, after a...

In an interview on May 4, 2025, with Kristen Welker, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” President Donald Trump was asked: “Don’t you need to...

One of the more remarkable features of President Donald Trump’s ongoing, yet unfulfilled, effort in the first 100 days of his second term...

President Trump’s continued defiance of a federal court order, embraced by the U.S. Supreme Court, to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed the Trump Administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an infamous...

DOGE is not what it purports to be. The indiscriminate, arbitrary cuts across dozens of federal agencies reflect neither its...

The overwhelming, mushrooming growth of presidential power in both foreign and domestic affairs, marked by executive aggrandizement and...

In the spring of 1952, President Harry Truman faced a nationwide strike that he feared would undermine the production of steel and thus...

It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats and a Civil War, before the English Constitution secured for Parliament the...

The Trump Administration’s encirclement of the Constitution, laid bare in federal court findings that President Trump has usurped the...

The question of whether the president may ban news organizations from attending official events in various places-- the Oval Office,...

The preservation of our constitutional system rests on three foundational predicates:  government has only that power granted to it by...

“He who saves his Country,” President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “does not violate any Law.”       Does the Constitution, in...

A U.S. federal judge in Rhode Island has declared President Donald Trump in violation of his order to release billions of dollars in...

The Framers’ conception of the American Presidency--its central functions, powers and limits--has faded across the decades as presidents...

At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and miscarriages of justice. At...

President Donald Trump’s Second Inaugural Address ignored the path of reconciliation, magnanimity and unity that distinguished the...

Election victories teem with opportunities for a new administration to renew and reform governmental institutions, revise vital areas of...