The U.S. Constitution

Trump Administration Sues Entire Federal Court

The Department of Homeland Security has taken the extraordinary step of suing an entire federal court. The lawsuit, filed against all 15 federal judges in the District of Maryland, is not a typical legal dispute. It is a direct and profound confrontation between two co-equal branches of government,...

5 Takeaways from New York’s Mayoral Primary

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist state assemblyman, has delivered a stunning defeat to former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. While the formal results of the ranked-choice vote are still pending, Mamdani has declared victory and Cuomo has...

Who Gets Drafted in a New World War?

Our world is on a razor’s edge. We see it in the Middle East, where the exchange of fire between Israel, Iran, and now the United States has turned a shadow war into a direct conflict. We see it in the enduring tensions between nuclear powers like India and Pakistan, and in the instability that...

Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Legislative Attempt to Limit Federal Court Power

A quiet but consequential battle over the power of our federal judiciary is being fought on two fronts. In the halls of Congress late Friday night, one assault on judicial authority was thwarted by arcane Senate procedure. But at the same time, the Supreme Court itself handed the White House a...

“Regardless of the Legislation”: A President’s Assault on the Power of the Purse

In a social media post this week, the President of the United States issued a stunning directive. Endorsing Rep. Kevin Kiley’s proposed “No Tax Dollars for Riots” legislation, he then went a step further, declaring: “I am hereby instructing my Administration not to pay ANY money to these...

A Predictable Retaliation: Iranian Missiles Hit American Air Base

Ballistic missiles, fired from Iran, have now targeted a major American air base in Qatar. While the attack was successfully intercepted and resulted in no U.S. casualties, any sense of relief is dangerously premature. The physical damage may be zero, but the damage to our constitutional order is...

Liberty, Equality… and Gender Identity: The Constitution and Transgender Rights

⬇️ Join the conversation and make your voice be heard. At the center of today’s fiercest political and cultural fault lines lies a question the framers of the Constitution never saw coming: How does an 18th-century charter of governance grapple with 21st-century understandings of identity? As...

The Unconstitutional Peace

A Republican congressman has nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The reason: his “extraordinary and historic role” in brokering a ceasefire that ended the “12 Day War” between Israel, Iran, and the United States. The nomination praises the President’s “bold,...

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...

A Tale of Two Independence Days: The Promise of July 4th and the Reckoning of Juneteenth

  America has two days that celebrate independence. One commemorates the birth of a nation; the other, the liberation of its people. One is the articulation of a promise; the other, the beginning of its painful and long-overdue delivery. The Fourth of July and Juneteenth are not competing...

A War for the Soul of America

There is a war being waged for the soul of America. It is not being fought with guns and cannons, but in our children’s classrooms. It is a battle over our very identity, a coordinated effort to tear down our heroes, slander our founding, and teach a new generation to be ashamed of their own...