Claims that Justice Brett Kavanaugh had his rights violated by protesters outside a D.C. restaurant fail on originalist grounds.

To win the war over the Constitution, the justice’s hollow originalist pretenses must be unmasked—and countered with new and forceful legal arguments.

Built-in dysfunction is the only reason the vast majority of Americans cannot exert their will to limit the everyday carnage of mass shootings.

What recourse do ordinary citizens have when federal agents violate their rights? After Wednesday, not much.

Blue states like New York and California want to restore the unlimited state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. Biden’s DOJ is trying to preserve the $10,000 limit—even though Trump enacted it to punish Democrats.

Judge David Carter said the former president and his lawyer, John Eastman, “more likely than not” committed federal crimes for their part in the January 6 insurrection.

Republican senators haven’t been shy about wanting to roll back the clock for women, LGBTQ people, and Black Americans.

Real-time audio broadcasts of oral arguments have been a tremendous boon to our civic life and should be made permanent.

Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.

A radical reimagining of the Constitution, dismissed by legal scholars as “rubbish,” may have found a receptive audience in the Supreme Court.

A proposal to reform House elections and give more power to the people is gaining traction with activists. Now they just have to convince the electorate to fight for it.

The Roberts court is taking up cases with phantasmal litigants and speculative complaints. But how it resolves them could have a massive impact on American life.

A group of North Carolina voters have employed a Reconstruction-era law to try to boot the controversial lawmaker from office.

The vice president has constitutional rights, too.

Fixing the obscure law that governs the way Electoral College votes are counted won’t save democracy, but it could keep things from getting much worse.

The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.

The high court’s decision in the matter of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law seems destined to spawn further chaos.

What sounds like a zany idea dreamt up in an opium den could have dire repercussions for the future of our democracy.

The First Amendment watchdogs who stepped up to defend James O’Keefe’s are probably feeling like they got played.

The only thing more bizarre than his “Texit” fantasy is his read of the current state of American politics.