A lot of questions remain about Congress' path forward to repeal military authorizations that empowered presidents to put boots on the ground and conduct airstrikes. Here's what we know.
Every Democrat in Congress voted against the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which aimed to guarantee equal protection of the law and voting rights for freed slaves. The Lincoln-era Republican Party passed them anyhow.
America’s first peaceful transfer of power was far more fraught than is generally understood today and casts cast an eerie light on the not entirely peaceful transfer of presidential power in 2020-21.
The argument that court expansion is unconstitutional is weak, transparently political — and most importantly, wrong.
Despite interest in overhaul, chamber would likely be a check
Giving each president two Supreme Court seats to fill would be a positive, transformative change.
The Court must decide whether to follow the Constitution’s clear text — or to rubber-stamp an illegal effort by Trump
In a 1987 survey, nearly half of Americans surveyed believed the phrase “From each according to ability; To each according to need” came from the U.S. Constitution.
Her originalism ignores the significance of the second American Revolution -- the Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Constitution even today does not offer an affirmative guarantee of the right to vote. If we truly want to build inclusive democracy, we must articulate an affirmative vision of an expansive right to vote in the Constitution itself.
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