Wisely, the founders, fearing the possibility of re-emerging tyranny, denied the government the unilateral authority to ...

It’s easy to look at President Donald Trump’s second term and conclude that the less power and reach the federal government has, the better. After all, a smaller government might provide Trump or ...

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at ...

It is up to the U.S. Supreme Court to do its duty to uphold constitutional checks and balances on President Donald Trump’s efforts to expand his powers beyond what the U.S. Constitution allows. The ...

As the author of a book called Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court, I naturally took an interest when Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch published a book late last year ...

Into this two-century-old dialectic steps Marc J. Dunkelman, a former Democratic Party operative and now Brown University fellow, whose provocative new book, Why Nothing Works, argues that ...

That’s why Jefferson wrote of “unalienable Rights.” Madison echoed that government was to be “a protector, not a giver, of liberty.” This principle distinguishes the American republic from both ...

The government is planning to approve a cabinet resolution that would allow it to carry out executive actions and advance legislation without the approval of the Attorney General’s Office. The move ...