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Takeaways from Kristi Noem’s combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

Confirmation hearings are not trials, and they are not job interviews in the normal sense. They are something more constitutionally revealing: a stress test for power. Who gets to ask questions. Who has to answer them. Which promises are treated as binding, and which are treated as theater....

Supreme Court Questions Federal Gun Ban for Regular Marijuana Users

You can buy marijuana legally in more states than ever, whether through adult-use programs in a growing number of states or medical programs in many more. You can also legally own or purchase firearms under state law in most of those states, subject to local rules like permits, waiting periods, and...

The 14th Amendment Explained: Citizenship, Due Process & Equal Protection

The 14th Amendment is one of the Constitution’s most important promises: that state governments must follow the rules of due process and equal protection when they make laws, enforce them, and decide who gets what rights and protections. It was adopted after the Civil War to confront a hard...