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A Green Light From the Court, But a Crossroads for Due Process 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…
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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…
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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…
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Liberty, Equality… and Gender Identity: The Constitution and Transgender Rights
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 courtrooms and legislatures across…
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A Predictable Retaliation: Iranian Missiles Hit American Air Base
The War Congress Didn’t Declare 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…
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What Does The Constitution Say About War?
The Imperial Presidency at War: A Constitutional Crisis Decades in the Making 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…