The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle and some are hidden. The chief instrument of ...

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Most surprisingly to me, the court ...

The individuals who established the fundamental principles driving today’s democratic society were 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers. Among them, the core ideas were ‘natural rights’ and ‘social ...

Editor: Is President Trump acting with all deliberate speed to move his agenda forward? Or is he just moving ahead with all possible speed? This president wants to hoodwink the public into a rushed ...

Lawsuits will likely address significant questions of constitutional law, federalism and the separation of powers.

[This is the third post in my series on my mission to Israel. You can read Parts I and II.] With that caveat in mind, I will describe my admittedly crude crash course into the Israeli separation of ...

New Mexico made history last month. The Bernalillo County Commission debated and approved the resolution titled, “Defending our U.S. Constitution and Separation of Powers.” I was there as the first ...

Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy, has suggested a return to the separation of powers enshrined in the 1979 Constitution of the Third Republic ...