Hoda Muthana belongs in a U.S. prison, not a Syrian refugee camp. U.S.-born Hoda Muthana should be in an American prison for joining Islamic State, the caliphate that terrorized, murdered and raped innocent civilians. Instead, she and her 2-year-old son are stuck in a refugee camp in Syria — because the U.S. …
The founders were extremely clear about the importance of dealing with the abuse of executive power. As House Democrats ramp up their impeachment investigation into President Trump, an increasingly vocal charge from the president’s supporters (and the White House) is that the House is attempting to “overturn” the results of …
Our legal understanding of mental illness shouldn’t be restricted to a 19th-century precedent. The Supreme Court is back in session today. And in this mad political season, it somehow seems fitting that one of the first cases it will consider is whether it is constitutional for a state to punish a person …
History will someday find it outrageous that it took 18 years to protect people’s right to travel unmolested. In an important constitutional decision, a federal district court in Virginia has held that the government must give people on the Terrorist Screening Database, better known as the “watch list,” the opportunity to …
Treaties signed in 1785 and 1835 give it the right to a non-voting delegate. It’s a great story: the Cherokee Nation is asserting its right to send a delegate to Congress under treaties dating back to 1785 and 1835. But it is also potentially a legal puzzle in the making. The 1785 treaty …
If a state’s electors can go rogue, then who’s really choosing the next president? A federal appeals court has held that members of the Electoral College have a constitutional right to vote for a different presidential candidate than the one they swore to support — and whom the voting public …
The union between the federal judiciary’s true believers in the primacy of our founding documents is fraying. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a notable ruling on police shootings this week, ruling in favor of a man whose encounter with law enforcement nearly a decade ago left him with …
Lost in the shuffle Thursday at the Supreme Court — with the major decision released in a separation of church and state case dominating — was another ruling that could, at some point, have wide ramifications for how American government functions. The court ruled that Congress did not overstep its authority in …
He’s making it harder for future presidents to govern. President Trump has been on an executive privilege extravaganza. In the past month, he’s asserted it to block Congress from obtaining documents about the census citizenship question, invoked it to try to bar the full Mueller report from being given to …
Our constitutional system never contemplated a President like Donald Trump. The Framers anticipated friction among the three branches of government, which has been a constant throughout our history, but the Trump White House has now established a complete blockade against the legislative branch, thwarting any meaningful oversight. The system, it …
If Democrats seek impeachment, Trump says he’d go to court Constitution leaves impeachment process up to Congress President Donald Trump said he’d ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene if Congress mounts an impeachment effort against him — even though there are no legal grounds for the justices to consider …
Obstruction of justice is a crime. The decision is clear. The Mueller report has been released, with redactions of course, and it is a damning document. Not only does it detail Russian efforts to attack our election to help the Trump campaign and the Trump campaign’s eager acceptance of that …