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More pushback against the president's immigration order. - Click here for the article. Fresh challenges to President Trump’s court-f...

It's organization violates the separation of powers. - Click here for the article . A U.S. consumer watchdog agency that helped u...

One article on Scalia argues that this book marks "the high point of his intellectual influence across party lines." I offer it be...

In a 2004 article, Barnett tackles the claims that the framers of the Constitution did not define judicial power to include the power of jud...

Be up on all your checks and balances - and anything related to the separated powers. Not all the checks and balances are written out in the...

This might be of interest to 2305 students since we are now looking at the judiciary and also discussing how the courts go about the busines...

From a few years back, a look at how the American constitutional system system impacts governing, and how that contrasts with other nations....

Here's a link to the decision . Here's the heart of the decision: No ruling of this court will sway the opinion regarding abort...

For our look at the federal judiciary, in addition to federalism : Seeking to block the state of Texas from implementing new abortion regu...

As we come close - again - to the debt ceiling, questions are being raised - again - about whether the debt ceiling is constitutional. Can C...

A Washington Post writer thinks so , and suggests that this explains the need for clear limiting principles: . . . from the Supreme Court’s ...

The Texas Open Beaches Act was passed in 1959 and guarantees free public access to beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. It limits the ability ...

ScotusBlog outlines the expected arguments , which will include a challenge to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The t...

Newt Gingrich's recent criticisms of the judiciary have angered some, but Eric Posner thinks he makes a reasonable point. As we continu...

From the NYT : The Obama administration prevailed in the first appellate review of the 2010 health care law on Wednesday as a three-judge ...

Andrew Cohen, writing in the Atlantic, details how the Justice Departments is preparing its appeal of a trial court judge's decision de...

For 2301 as we dig into elections this week: From the Washington Post : The Supreme Court on Monday turned down the Republican National ...

- Story in the NYT . - A summary of opinions from the Atlantic Wire . - Thumbs up from the WSJ . - Clive Crook: Health Care and the Const...

This is a very big deal and I'll integrate it into my discussion of federalism in 2301. It involves potential of challenges to the comme...

From the NYT : A federal district judge in Virginia ruled on Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitu...