A columnist is blessed if even one bright and serious reader takes time to analyze and critique his work in a careful, ...

John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come: “[Independence Day] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am a ...

Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant ...

We may criticize or appeal court rulings we don't agree with. But we cannot defy the rulings of duly constituted courts and ...

A divided Iowa Supreme Court last week upheld two laws restricting firearm access, one related to domestic violence ...

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of ...

A divided Iowa Supreme Court upheld two laws restricting firearm access, one related to domestic violence protective orders ...

A summary of the executive orders and releases on deregulation issued by the second Trump administration and their potential impact on rulemaking and enforcement across federal agencies.

Americans seem fine with their preferred president assuming the powers of a King, but not with the president they oppose doing the same.

While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its ...

John Jay’s observation in Federalist No. 2 that Americans are “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of ...