The super PAC money swamping the American election system is generally, and rightly, blamed on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. But a lower court decision that relied on Cit… Read More
A challenge to a Texas Voter Identification law that some have described as the strictest in the nation now seems less likely to be headed immediately to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an opini… Read More
"Al Franken Tears Into Mitch McConnell On Senate Floor For Being An Unpatriotic Coward" by Bipartisan Report, BipartisanReport .com 2/25/2016ExcerptSenator Al Franken (D-MN) is a very funny… Read More
Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. He wrote this on the SCOTUSBl… Read More
"How the deadlocked Supreme Court became a leading campaign issue" PBS NewsHour 10/4/2016NOTE: Mitch McConnell does NOT make a logical (nor Constitutional) argument. He can get w… Read More
Months after a Federal Appeals Court ruled that Texas lawmakers discriminated against African-American and Latino voters in passing a strict Voter Identification Law, the Obama administratio… Read More
Kellyanne Conway is considering taking the helm of the external political operation that will support Trump during his tenure as President, according to sources familiar with the private del… Read More
"Why Trump Would Almost Certainly Be Violating the Constitution If He Continues to Own His Businesses" by Richard Tofel, ProPublica 12/2/2016The meaning of the Emoluments Clause is fairly c… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an Appeal by Texas in defense of its Voter-Identification Law, even as Chief Justice John Roberts signaled interest in hearing the State’s argume… Read More
President Trump announced his intent to nominate Acting Solicitor General, Noel Francisco, to permanently fill that position Tuesday night.
Francisco, who most recently hails from the Law f… Read More
"Gorsuch in confirmation hearing promises independence from politics" PBS NewsHour 3/20/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: On day one of Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing, senators outlined p… Read More
Less then a week into the job, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will have his first chance, behind closed doors at least, to weigh in on Voting Rights.
When the Justices meet today for th… Read More
The United States is a Republic. The Constitution spells out how one of our Country’s most fundamental Acts of Representative Government is undertaken, choosing the “Times, Place… Read More
There are many People who Live and Breathe Spreadsheets in New York City. But Todd Breitbart’s Columns and Rows connect him not to dollars and cents but to Neighborhoods, Ethnic Groups… Read More
Texas and Six other States filed a Lawsuit in Federal Court Tuesday Challenging the Constitutionality of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The 137-page Law… Read More
Lets start with some definitions:Conservative1: Having the power or tendency to preserve in a safe and entire state3: One who adheres to traditional, time-tested, long-standing m… Read More
On Jun 27th 2018, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Congressman David Cicilline (-RI, 1st District) submitted Bicameral Legislation that would increase Transparency and Guard against Fo… Read More
Understanding and Incorporating French Provincial Decor
Sophistication and simplicity come together in French Provincial decor, sometimes in ways that are unexpected. This style arose from a… Read More
Trump considers Targeting Birthright Citizenship with Executive Order in his last Weeks in Office.
Birthright Citizenship guarantees Citizenship to anyone Born anywhere it is considered U… Read More
The Georgia State Bar is Investigating whether Lin Wood, the Trump Attorney who made some of the Wildest Claims about Fraud in the 2020 Election, has Committed Professional Violations.
The… Read More
According to Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the Ability to Authorize the Creation of a New State. Specifically, Section 3 Prohibits the Creation of New Sta… Read More
The recent U.S. Mass Shootings has Renewed attention on the Constitutional Contours of Firearms Regulation and the Supreme Court's 2008 Decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that 5… Read More
Acknowledging that “access to pre-viability abortion is a constitutionally protected right,” a Federal Appellate Court, Blocked a Restrictive Tennessee Abortion Law Friday, but a… Read More
One hundred ninety years have passed since the birth of the famous artist.
He was born on January 23, 1832 in Paris, as the first-born son of a ministerial clerk and the dau… Read More