Congress is supposed to be a check on presidential power, but party politics has muted Republican criticism of Trump. Restoring balance means making a radical change.
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President Trump has promised to protect religious liberty. But there was a time when evangelicals believed that a religion that needed protection from government had no reason to exist at all.
The Trump administration’s hostility toward journalists is raising new questions about what rights journalists have to access government officials and events.
A recent US Supreme Court ruling marks a new milestone in the debate over police power and privacy in the digital age.
When the U.S. broke away from the “mother country,” the dream was to let the common good overruled selfish and private interests. Yet the federal government is arranged so this can never occur.
Donald Trump has lately been called “treasonous” by some; others say he’s violated his oath of office. What are the president’s Constitutional obligations – and who holds the president accountable?
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
As the Kentucky Senate considers a bill for school prayer, a scholar explains the violent history of prayer – and a time when Catholic students were sometimes whipped, beaten and worse for not participating.
Following the controversy over the resignation of House chaplain Patrick Conroy, in this speed read, scholars explain when the tradition of legislative prayer was started and how it has sustained.
On September 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House had launched a formal impeachment inquiry against the president. But as history shows, the outcome is anything but assured.
The First Amendment protects everything from porn to hateful signs outside military funerals. That includes fundraising pitches of all kinds.
Donald Trump is far from the first president to politicise the judiciary, but the way he’s going about it is uniquely dangerous.
It’s quite possible that neither the US nor the UK will ever return to normal when it comes to political and constitutional balance.
The first amendment protecting press freedom is under unprecedented threat in the Trump era.
Jeff Flake called the US president’s lies and attacks on the media a danger to democracy, but it’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind.
Trump’s America is marked by the clash of intransigent, bitter opinions. And it’s not just about gun control.
From the football field to the library, this roundup of archival stories explores how the First Amendment applies to various aspects of our lives.
A survey asked Americans what they would do if the Supreme Court started making many unpopular decisions. Here’s what they said.
Pardoning a man who has illegally used racial profiling to round up Latinos could send a message to law enforcement that aggressive tactics are OK by the president.
As the Trump team begins renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico, a key plank in its strategy – a threat to withdraw – may be a hollow one.
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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