When the framers wrote the Constitution, they gave courts a modest job: to decide cases and controversies, actual legal ...

When Congress looks the other way as its powers are usurped by the executive, we are witnessing the systematic erosion of ...

Test your knowledge of the Judiciary Act of 1789 with this quiz! Learn about its historical context, key provisions, and ...

The rescission bill amounts to a tacit recognition that if the president doesn’t want to spend money allocated, Congress has ...

Tindig Pilipinas convenors and impeachment petitioners Dr. Sylvia Estrada Claudio and Teresita Deles hold a copy of their ...

Together, these three developments — Trump’s executive attack on legislative powers, the judiciary’s ratification of the ...

A Republican Congress in thrall to or in fear of Trump may not intend to create a lasting precedent in which the spending power, Congress’s last redoubt of priority-setting authority, fades away.

Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what ...

Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what ...

Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is,” is a cornerstone of the doctrine of ...

Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of evolution because ...

If it resists and is ignored, it will have weakened the institution for generations. But if it doesn’t resist this remaking ...