The debt ceiling standoff between President Joe Biden and House Republicans has illuminated the Public Debt Clause of the 14th Amendment,...

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, as part of their commitment to separating church from state, unanimously adopted a clause in...

In its first and only impeachment trial of a Supreme Court Justice, the U.S. Senate in 1805 acquitted Samuel Chase of charges against...

National conversations surrounding the remote possibility of impeaching Justice Clarence Thomas for accepting –and failing to...

Defendant Donald J. Trump and his supporters have assailed the 34-count felony indictment of the former president brought by the...

Former President Donald Trump has said he expects to be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury any day now. Although widely anticipated,...

In 1965, in the landmark case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court, for the first time in our nation’s history, invoked the...

Racial discrimination in southern hotels and restaurants throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Congress determined in 1964 through...

The immense pressures inflicted on the United States by the Great Depression of the 1930s forced the Supreme Court on several occasions...

Former Vice-President Mike Pence plans to invoke the Speech or Debate Clause as justification for challenging a subpoena issued by...

President Joe Biden’s delivery of what has become the annual State of the Union Address fulfilled one of the few constitutional...

The difficulties that college and university administrators from California to Massachusetts have faced over the past 30 years in...

Questions surrounding news that President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence have disclosed possession of classified...

Half a century later, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) remains the Supreme Court’s authoritative ruling...

In a tragic, landmark ruling of historic dimensions, the Supreme Court, in 1927, in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,...

Congressman-Elect, Ron Santos’s (R-NY) sweeping distortions of his personal and professional biography has triggered nationwide calls for...

In this season of peace, remembrance and celebration, we are beckoned by the ghosts of 1776 and 1787 to recall the historic work of this...

It is unclear if the Department of Justice will charge former President Donald Trump with four crimes referred by the January 6...

At this juncture in American history, when the citizenry seems to require frequent reminders of the landmark decisions and actions that...

The enormous pressures and hardships—financial, medical and psychological-- inflicted on the citizenry by the Great Depression required...