Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at why the Supreme Court was silent on…
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case challenging President Obama’s 2014 executive action…
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at a novel argument that President…
On April 12, 1777, the Kentucky politician Henry Clay was born. His remarkable career included a long stint as Speaker of the…
On this day in 1964, the Senate was involved in an epic fight over the Civil Right Act, after a group of Southern senators started…
The 17th amendment, which was ratified 103 years ago today, profoundly changed how Senators were chosen to serve in Congress. The…
Over the objections of Justice Clarence Thomas, the eight-person Supreme Court has denied an effort by two neighboring states to…
Lyle Denniston looks at the debate over the next Supreme Court nominee and how the upcoming November presidential and…
On March 6, 1819, the Supreme Court ruled in McCulloch v. Maryland, holding that Congress has the power to establish a national…
In private conference today, an eight-Justice Supreme Court may decide the fate of a battle between three states over the…
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