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The Executive and the Rule of Law

by Jackie McDermott

Recent controversies over sentencing recommendations for President Trump’s associate Roger Stone, as well as a series of pardons…

The Executive and the Rule of Law
Battle for the Constitution: Week of Feb. 10, 2020 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the “Battle for the Constitution:” a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of Feb. 10, 2020 Roundup
Battle for the Constitution: Week of Feb. 3, 2020 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Below is a round-up of the latest from the “Battle for the Constitution:” a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of Feb. 3, 2020 Roundup
Battle for the Constitution: Week of Jan. 27, 2020 Roundup

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Below is a round-up of the latest from the “Battle for the Constitution:” a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of Jan. 27, 2020 Roundup
Battle for the Constitution: Week of Jan. 20, 2020 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Get a round-up of the latest from the “Battle for the Constitution:” a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of Jan. 20, 2020 Roundup
Pettifogging: An obscure word gets its day in the Senate

by Nicholas Mosvick

In the first day of the Senate Impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, Chief Justice John Roberts made a reference to an…

Pettifogging: An obscure word gets its day in the Senate
How the 20th Amendment made lame-duck sessions less lame

by NCC Staff

One of the most important, but least discussed, constitutional amendments made government more responsive by greatly shorting the…

How the 20th Amendment made lame-duck sessions less lame
The Chief, the Senate, and the Trial

by Jackie McDermott

Just before the Senate began the third presidential impeachment trial in American history, Ken Starr and Joan Biskupic previewed…

The Chief, the Senate, and the Trial
The next steps in the Senate impeachment trial process

by Scott Bomboy

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives formally delivered two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump to the…

The next steps in the Senate impeachment trial process
Who is the Senate Parliamentarian and what does she do?

by Scott Bomboy

The impending Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump could see an important figure in the national spotlight who is…

Who is the Senate Parliamentarian and what does she do?