Joe Biden suggested that his proposed national mask mandate to combat the coronavirus pandemic would not take the form of any federal mandate at all, declaring that he is a “constitutionalist” that ...

The name of the attorney on the news release announcing the latest legal threat from the Good Ship Rolovich might ring a bell. Patriot “constitutionalist” KrisAnne Hall – a key figure in the Malheur ...

For Republicans, defending the Constitution is like the weather: They all talk about it, but nobody ever does anything. Or, at least, does anything practical. Conservatives think that modern ...

Living constitutionalists argue that their methodology allows us to improve constitutional law over time. But what if it actually makes it worse? Legal scholar Ernest Young raises that very question ...

How in the world was President Trump able to figure out the 14th Amendment when it stymied some of the greatest minds in constitutional law? That’s the question that will confront voters in the face ...

In an open letter to the Biden Administration, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and University of San Francisco political scientist Aaron Belkin urge President Biden to disobey "high-stakes" "MAGA" ...

In Snohomish County, Sheriff Adam Fortney is refusing to enforce the governor’s stay-at-home order. He claims the order “intrudes on our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” On April ...

Robert H. Bork, we all know, didn’t sit on the Supreme Court. His legacy thus cannot lie in votes cast and opinions written. You have to look elsewhere, and you certainly could begin with his earliest ...

In the online world of conspiratorial patriot poseurs, Ephrata’s Gavin Seim has repeatedly cast himself as a hero, a valiant knight in battle with the tyrannical “psychopaths” of the justice system of ...

AbstractIn an era concerned with dysfunction in American politics, polarization, and the relevance of academia for ameliorating these problems, the fiftieth anniversary of a debate about American ...

President Obama seems to be doing everything in his power, and quite a few things that are not legitimately within his power, to bring about a constitutional crisis. He has repeatedly suspended laws ...

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