With the official announcement of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court after its current term, all…
On December 31, 1999, the United States officially handed the Panama Canal over to Panama’s government, ending a long saga that…
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On this day in 1984, the Supreme Court decided Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, which created the doctrine that…
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On April 27, 1917. Republican California Representative Julius Kahn introduced to the House Resolution 3545—known better as the…
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On March 28, 1834, the U.S. Senate censured President Andrew Jackson in a tug-of-war that had questionable constitutional roots…
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…
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