Tag: Constitution

In Patchak v. Zinke, the Supreme Court is looking to determine the constitutionality of a federal statute that blocks an American from pursuing a pending lawsuit. (iStock photo)

Supreme Court questions if Congress can affect federal courts’ decisions

Ryan Lovelace · November 7, 2017 6:15 pm

When Trump complains about law enforcement on Twitter, it isn't a sign of strength, but of weakness. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Trump’s Twitter tantrum on FBI shows American institutions are strong

Philip Klein · November 3, 2017 5:56 pm

Walking into a conference meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday, Alabama Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore said that "there should be no religious test, no. That's against the Constitution." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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Roy Moore now says religious tests go ‘against the Constitution,’ a dozen years after condemning a congressman for being Muslim

Philip Wegmann · October 31, 2017 7:13 pm

The application of that principle to the Korean Peninsula would mark a significant shift in policy toward the North Korean regime, which is trying to develop a intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the mainland United States. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

Senate Democrats: Trump has no authority to launch pre-emptive strike against North Korea

Joel Gehrke · October 31, 2017 4:50 pm

Is it possible to be a conservative and a feminist at Harvard University? Yes, it is. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

I’m a female student at Harvard, and I’m conservative. Here’s why.

Emily Hall · October 27, 2017 5:59 pm

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment explains that the president can be suspended from office "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit [to congressional leaders that the president is incapable of carrying out his duties]." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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Congress doesn’t get a veto over Trump’s nuclear trigger but …

Tom Rogan · October 27, 2017 2:58 pm

Contrary to Perez's claim, the U.S. Constitution establishes the Electoral College in Article II, and the 12th Amendment details the process by which electors will meet and vote for president and vice president. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

DNC Chairman Tom Perez: ‘The Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution’

Melissa Quinn · October 26, 2017 2:42 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a statement at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Justice Department backs California student who sued college for limiting free speech

Kelly Cohen · October 24, 2017 9:58 pm

This is not the first time Moore has commented on same-sex relationships. In a 2005 interview, he told CSPAN that "homosexual conduct should be illegal." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Roy Moore: Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage ‘worse’ than Dred Scott ruling upholding slavery

Naomi Lim · October 24, 2017 3:56 pm

Editorial: Trump, Emoluments, and the Professoriate

The Editors · October 24, 2017 8:50 am

Although he disagreed with their demonstrations, Dershowitz said the First Amendment was "working well" in the context of the NFL because "both sides are being heard." (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Alan Dershowitz: NFL players don’t have a constitutional right to kneel during national anthem

Naomi Lim · October 22, 2017 6:37 pm

The ability to express one's opinion is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution. But what we are seeing now is a battle among students and faculty on what free speech means and the degree to which free speech is accepted on college campuses. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

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Free Speech Week is more important on campus than ever before

alexander-staudt · October 19, 2017 3:35 pm