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A Tragedy in Texas: When a Child Stands Trial as an Adult

At a high school track meet – the most ordinary of American scenes – a dispute over seating under a team tent ended with a knife, a 17-year-old boy dead, and another facing the possibility of life in prison. The fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf in Frisco, Texas, is more than just a local crime...

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Resume ‘Third-Country’ Deportations

This week, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a procedural victory in its ongoing battle to reshape immigration enforcement. In a 6-3 decision, the justices paused a lower court’s order, allowing the administration to resume deporting certain migrants to countries other than their...

The Court’s Controversial Choice On Youth Gender Care

This week, the Supreme Court was tasked with resolving a conflict that strikes at the heart of America’s most profound constitutional debates. On one side stood the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection for all persons. On the other, the sovereign power of a state to regulate medicine...

A Lesson on the Spending Clause: A Court Reminds the President of His Limits

Our Constitution creates a deliberate and often tense balance of power. Congress is given the “power of the purse,” deciding how federal money is spent. The President, in turn, is tasked with faithfully executing the laws. But what happens when a President uses the money Congress allocated for...

A Republic in Recess: Trump Calls For Fewer Paid Holidays

In a social media post this week, President Trump declared that there are “Too many non-working holidays in America,” framing them as a multi-billion-dollar drain on the economy that “must change.” This argument, viewing our national calendar through the narrow lens of a profit-and-loss...

The 25th Amendment on Trial: A Proposal to Reinvent Presidential Removal

A provocative new proposal from Representative Darrell Issa is forcing a national conversation about one of the most sensitive and critical parts of our constitutional order: the 25th Amendment. In the wake of revelations about a potential “cover-up” of former President Biden’s declining...

What Does The Constitution Say About War?

American warplanes have conducted strikes against nuclear facilities inside Iran. This is a direct act of combat against a sovereign nation, ordered by the President without a word of debate or a single vote from Congress. This action, regardless of its strategic merits, has pushed our nation to...

Trump Issues Urgent Warning on Iran

In a shocking and unprecedented statement Monday evening, the President of the United States posted a message on social media with no context or explanation: “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” Shortly after, explosions were reported in the Iranian capital. The dramatic warning,...

At a moment of extreme global crisis, with the world looking to the G7 summit for unified leadership, the President of the United States is leaving the table. Citing the urgent situation in the Middle East, President Trump will cut his visit short and return to Washington, abandoning his closest...

“Maybe I Should Go to the Fed”: An Assault on an Economic Bedrock

“He’s not a smart person.” “A stupid person.” “A numbskull.” These are the words the President of the United States used this week to describe the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Capping it off with the musing, “Maybe I should go to the Fed,” President Trump has escalated his...

Tanks and Troops Mark Army’s 250th Amidst Public Debate

Seventy-ton M1A2 Abrams tanks are rolling down the streets of Washington, D.C. Thousands of soldiers—some in modern combat gear, others in the historic uniforms of the Revolutionary War—are marching in formation. Above, helicopters and warplanes cut through the sky as Army parachutists descend...

In a significant turn of events, tens of thousands of Americans protested in cities across the nation against President Donald Trump's military parade and his return to the presidency. The demonstrations, dubbed "No Kings," reflect a fundamental American principle dating back to 1776: that no...

Minnesota: Killer Suspect And Further Hit List Revealed

The horrific assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband was not the beginning and the end of the plot. It was only the first act. The discovery of a manifesto and a “kill list” in the suspect’s vehicle reveals a far more sinister and constitutionally perilous objective: a planned...

Federal Judge Upholds Restraining Order

A federal judge has, for the moment, shielded Harvard University from the full force of the executive branch. The temporary extension of a restraining order against the Trump administration is not a final victory, but a crucial pause in a profound constitutional showdown. This is not merely a...

A Judge, A President, and a Prison in El Salvador

This is not a mere procedural dispute. It is a profound conflict over a simple but vital question: Does the Constitution have an off-switch? Can the executive branch extinguish a person’s right to due process simply by placing them on a plane and flying them beyond our borders? The temporary stay...

A judge rules the President’s deployment “illegal,” but an appeals court overturns it hours later.

In a tense courtroom on Thursday, the raw conflict between executive power and judicial review was laid bare. A federal judge, holding up a pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, declared President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles to be “illegal.” Hours later, an appeals...

Protected Speech or Criminal Incitement? The Line for Protest Organizers

They call it “free speech.” But when calls to protest against ICE operations – allegedly ignited by coordinated social media campaigns from well-funded activist groups – result in blocked freeways, injured officers, and burning cars, a republic must ask a harder question. When online...

In Israel, U.S. Forces Are Directly Engaged In Combat

As Iranian missiles streaked across the skies toward Israel, U.S. forces engaged in a direct act of combat, helping to shoot them down. The White House’s justification was straightforward and compelling: “There are hundreds of thousands of American citizens and other American assets in Israel...

The Minnesota Killings and the Threat to a Republican Form of Government

A ballot or a bullet. This is the foundational choice upon which any republic stands or falls. In Minnesota, that choice has been violated by an assassin’s gun. The murder of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the attempted assassination of State Senator...

National Guard in LA: Who controls the militia, and for what purpose?

The deployment of 2,000 federalized National Guard troops onto the streets of Los Angeles, against the express wishes of California’s governor, is more than a political showdown. It’s a constitutional stress test. At the heart of the armored vehicles and escalating protests is a foundational...