A simple warning to President Trump: Human nature hasn’t changed. Presidents are not exempt from the problem of hubris. When married to the awesome power of the presidency, there’s the human tendency to throw caution to the wind, to embrace…
President Trump, upon departing the White House at the end of his first term, suggested he was already planning his political comeback. He told a gaggle of reporters, “We’ll see each other again.” Yet the event that truly launched Trump’s…
With the ringing in of 2025, a new chapter begins for America. The start of a new administration under Donald Trump, along with the promise of DOGE with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk at the helm, may have us believing…
The independent judiciary established by our Constitution has inspired the world. Even British law, which developed and preserved constitutional liberties, and whose firm sense of political rights inspired the American Founders, has only in the last two decades undertaken to…
Calls abound for the removal of President Biden over his objection, using the involuntary disability provision, with Vice-President Kamala Harris to then assume the presidency. What the text of Section 4 makes clear, however, is than under that provision, she…
Earlier this month, in National Rifle Association (NRA) v. Vullo, the gun-rights organization won a landmark victory at the Supreme Court. Given the Court’s conservative majority, a casual court-watcher might find this unsurprising. Less intuitively, the NRA received legal representation…
The vice presidency is the U.S. Constitution’s oddity. Aside from presiding over the U.S. Senate and casting a vote when there is a tie, there are few official duties associated with the office. Unless delegated a policy portfolio the vice…
Jefferson wrote of “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” in his ringing declaration which still speaks to our hearts. But what these Laws of Nature are is a matter of considerable debate. Jefferson professed the watchmaker God of the…
The most precious document in existence is the Constitution of the United States of America. This document spells out how the USA works, how the governance of the USA works, and what the rights of our citizens are and are…
