The US Supreme Court split, 6-3, Friday in ruling that President Donald Trump cannot use a federal emergency powers law to impose tariffs.
Today’s would-be philosopher kings are just as hungry for power as their 20th-century predecessors, and they are just as willing to destroy the institutions of constitutional government in order to get it. To prevent that, we must make sure those institutions continue to be well manned.
As George W. Bush's national counsel during the 2000 Florida recount, I see echoes of Gore's playbook in Jefferson Griffin’s attempts to invalidate 60,000 North Carolina voters.
North Carolina's Hampton Dellinger is dropping his legal fight to keep his job leading the federal Office of Special Counsel. Dellinger made that announcement Thursday, one day after a federal Appeals Court ruled that President Donald Trump could fire Dellinger.
The US Supreme Court refused Friday to block a lower court’s decision protecting a federal agency head from President Donald Trump’s plan to fire him. The targeted official ran for lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2008.
A former U.S. solicitor general from the Obama administration spelled our a "clear, correct standard" that could strike down N.C. courts' actions in a redistricting dispute.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Moore v. Harper in late 2022, with a decision expected about a year from now in the summer of 2023. The case is being pursued by Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly that argue the North Carolina State Supreme Court’s Democrat majority violated the state...
It’s official, the Supreme Court of the United States has officially overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending the nationwide constitutional right to an abortion after more than 50 years. The decision is historic in more ways than one, as in the lead up there was an unprecedented leak of an internal draft, threatening the...
Republicans in the N.C. General Assembly are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to limit state court oversight over future congressional redistricting. Republicans filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the court, asserting the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court violated the elections clause of the U.S. Constitution when they invalidated the legislature’s congressional maps and imposed...
A national pandemic. New minimum wage standards. Calls for a “New Deal.” If you didn’t know any better, you might think I was referring to early 20th Century America —when the flu ravaged the nation and President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed unprecedented progressive policies seemingly every day. But no. The events of recent years have revived countless struggles from our...
Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court revives an important constitutional debate.
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