Immigration, Invasion, and Habeas Corpus
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Immigration If Texas is right to argue that illegal immigration and cross-border drug smuggling qualify as "invasion," then the…
Immigration If Texas is right to argue that illegal immigration and cross-border drug smuggling qualify as "invasion," then the…
newsPolitiFact PolitiFact | There’s an open question over whether the move could withstand a legal challenge.
Previous presidents have declined to use the 14th Amendment to prevent a federal default on the national debt.
Laurence H. Tribe has an Op Ed in The NY Times: Tribe is one of those Very Serious People who are in and out of government all…
Apr 10 · 7 min read Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash The American political system is a carefully constructed one — it’s…
The novelist E.L. Doctorow once wrote, “One cannot consider the U.S. Constitution without getting into an argument with it.…
So far, there's no end in sight to the current government shutdown that has resulted over President Donald Trump's demand that…
On Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump swore to “faithfully execute the office of president of the United States … [and] preserve…
President Trump’s difficulty finding lawyers who will represent him in his current legal troubles tells us much about his…
President Lincoln was represented by a lawyer who didn’t vote for him The White House, CC BY-SA President Trump’s difficulty…
President Lincoln was represented by a lawyer who didn’t vote for him The White House, CC BY-SA President Trump’s difficulty…
President Lincoln was represented by a lawyer who didn’t vote for him The White House, CC BY-SA President Trump’s difficulty…
President Lincoln was represented by a lawyer who didn’t vote for him The White House, CC BY-SA President Trump’s difficulty…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 9…
President Trump’s difficulty finding lawyers who will represent him in his current legal troubles tells us much about his…
When President Donald Trump authorized cruise missile strikes on a western Syrian airfield on Thursday night, in response to…
Tom Nichols, a professor at the US Naval College, has written a piece in the Washington Post with a headline urging Americans…
People have been talking about the possibility of a “constitutional crisis ” since before President Trump’s election.
Aug. 16, 2016 12:00pm Donald Trump said it would be “fine” to try Americans accused of terrorism at the U.S.
Our speech is being monitored. Our lawmakers work in secret. It's a brave new world;
Peter Van Buren Since 9/11, power-hungry political leaders have eviscerated the First Amendment—and we’ve allowed them to do it.
Taking Down the First Amendment in Post-Constitutional America Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com America has entered its third…