Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital ...

Trump v. Slaughter, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in December, likely will put an end to the era of independent federal regulatory agencies. Even if the court does not formally overrule the ...

One of the most dangerous mistakes Americans are making right now is treating the threat to our democracy as a collection of daily outrages - the latest social media post, the latest threat, the ...

Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.

WACO, Texas -- Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the genius of the American system of government is that no one should have too much power, even as he and other conservatives on the Supreme Court are ...

When the government shutdown ends, Donald Trump will have succeeded in staging the single biggest expansion of presidential power in American history because of the single largest shift in the ...

New Mexico made history last month. The Bernalillo County Commission debated and approved the resolution titled, “Defending our U.S. Constitution and Separation of Powers.” I was there as the first ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital to the preservation of liberty. Instead, the court seems to have been ...