Tag: Constitution

Surrounded by crowds, President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first ball at a baseball game in Washington in this 1916 photo. (AP Photo)

A year of anniversaries

Thomas Sowell · December 30, 2014 5:45 pm

Americans have good reason to fear and loathe this latest creative interpretation of the Fourth Amendment because it weakens the rule of law over government. (iStock Photo)

Supreme Court ruling erodes key check on government power

Mark Fitzgibbons · December 25, 2014 10:00 am

Quiz: How well do you know the Constitution?

Quiz: How well do you know the Constitution?

Justin Green · December 20, 2014 5:00 pm

Obama Quietly Grants 12 Pardons and 8 Commutations

Obama Quietly Grants 12 Pardons and 8 Commutations

Daniel Halper · December 18, 2014 4:51 pm

The Obama rule: Can I get away with it?

Terence Jeffrey · December 17, 2014 6:33 pm

Quiz: How well do you know the Bill of Rights?

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2014 6:41 pm

WSJ to Congress: Cede the Power of the Purse

WSJ to Congress: Cede the Power of the Purse

Jeffrey H. Anderson · December 5, 2014 12:34 pm

Mark Levin urges states to ‘take back your power’ from ‘runaway’ Obama

Washington Secrets

Mark Levin urges states to ‘take back your power’ from ‘runaway’ Obama

Paul Bedard · December 4, 2014 11:08 pm

President Obama speaks about his executive action on U.S. immigration policy at Del Sol High School on November 21, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty images)

Obama’s amnesty lawlessness demands accountability

David Limbaugh · November 23, 2014 10:48 pm

President Obama takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts at the ceremonial swearing-in on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott Andrews, Pool)

The will to power

Mona Charen · November 23, 2014 10:04 pm

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection bike patrol agent assists Mexicans being returned to Mexico after they were apprehended for entering the United States illegally June 2, 2010 in Nogales, Ariz. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty images)

‘Power checking power’: The Constitution still matters on immigration

Brandon James Smith · November 22, 2014 10:00 am

Though liberal supporters of President Obama may be spending the day celebrating his immigration executive order, they may come to regret it should a future Republican president use the same precedent to selectively enforce laws in a way that advances the conservative agenda. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

How a GOP president could use Obama’s executive action to cut taxes

Jason Russell · November 21, 2014 7:08 pm