President-elect Donald Trump’s recent remarks about using recess appointments to name his cabinet nominees has drawn a good deal…
One of the most controversial measures taken by the federal government in its early days were the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.…
With Donald Trump set to serve again as president, there has been talk about his ability to continue in office after his second…
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, voters from around the country will complete the process of choosing electors who will pick the next…
In this video, Alexander Keyssar talks about why the founders created the Electoral College.
Unlike other recent campaigns, the specter of a tied election is less likely to hang over the 2024 presidential election due to…
Alexander Keyssar talks about what the Constitution says about voting.
Derek Muller talks about why the founders did not choose a national popular vote to select the president.
On October 26, 1774, the First Continental Congress ended its initial session in Philadelphia with a list of rights belonging to…
On Nov. 5, 2024, voters will head to the polls in person to select the next president and vice president of the United States, as…
Many of the nation’s veterans have fought battles with the federal agency responsible for awarding benefits for their…
Today marks the anniversary of an American icon: the White House. Here’s a look back at its remarkable history.
The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term on the eve of an intense, historic election in which the justices may be called on to play…
The humanitarian and NBA legend was grateful for the freedom he enjoyed, and understood the obligations that came with it.
The National Constitution Center honored America’s storyteller, Ken Burns, with the 36th annual Liberty Medal in a ceremony held…
It was back on this day in 1789 that Congress passed the act that officially created the federal judiciary system that included…
On September 17, 1787, a group of men gathered in a closed meeting room to sign the greatest vision of human freedom in history,…
The Constitution is our most enduring document, but not everything you read online about the Constitution is accurate! Here are…
Recent summers in the U.S. Supreme Court have been deceptively quiet. It is still true that when the final decision is issued in…
On Sept. 10, 2024, the Center will be the location of ABC’s broadcast of the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and…
On September 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted a new name for what had been called “the United Colonies.” The…
President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon on this day in 1974 generated a national controversy, but in recent years, some…
On September 5, 1774, the first Continental Congress in the United States met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the…
It was on this day in 1963 that Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech as part of the March on…
One of the highest profile cases in the Supreme Court’s upcoming term could set a precedent over the ability of several states…
Debates between presidential candidates have become an important part of the election process every four years, but in historical…
Ten years ago in a public conversation, journalist Marvin Kalb asked the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia what he would…
What do Benjamin Wade, Willie P. Mangum and John Nance Garner all have in common? If not for a last-second decision, or a twist of…
On August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford officially became President in the most unusual of circumstances, as Richard Nixon left Washington…
Recent injunctions from several federal judges have blocked the Department of Education from fully implementing new Title IX rules…
During the current presidential election, the importance of the two vice presidential nominees will be a topic of discussion…
On August 4, 1735, a jury acquitted publisher John Peter Zenger of libel charges against New York’s colonial governor, in an…
President Joe Biden’s recent announcement of several proposed Supreme Court reform measures includes the goal of establishing…
Today marks the anniversary of the odd, tragic story of Silas Deane, a Founding Father who was later banned from America and died…
The 25th Amendment deals with vacancies in the office of the presidency, and the process to follow when a president suffers a…
It was on this day in 1974 that the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to President Richard Nixon’s presidency, in a decision…
The legendary confrontation between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial took place on a hot…
On July 19, 1848, the first women’s rights convention in the United States began at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.
The Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term may best be remembered for a landmark decision about former President Donald Trump’s claims…
Today is the birthday of the late former President, Gerald R. Ford, who went from being a college football star to the White House…
Today marks the anniversary of the deadly duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. What caused the sitting vice president…
On July 8, 1776, popular legend says the Liberty Bell rang to symbolize America’s independence from Great Britain. But many…
William Blount is one of the lesser-known men who signed the Constitution, but one of the most controversial, since he put a key…
The Supreme Court wrapped up a historic term this week, one that will be defined largely by unprecedented constitutional issues…
There’s no doubt the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. But which date has the legitimate…
A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday, July 1, ruled that a dispute between social media giants such as YouTube, Facebook, and X,…
A divided Supreme Court on June 28, 2024 overturned a lower court decision which held that local government ordinances regulating…
For four decades, courts have followed a Supreme Court decision that was a roadmap of how to proceed when confronted with…
At what point does the government, in taking actions to make social media websites aware of content considered to be…
On June 13, the Supreme Court decided Vidal v. Elster, a case about the constitutionality of the Lanham Act’s Names Clause. The…
Did the U.S. Supreme Court last week engage in a course correction in its approach to gun regulation and the Second Amendment?
On June 21, 1989, a deeply divided United States Supreme Court upheld the rights of protesters to burn the American flag in a…
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the Constitution.
By the end of June or early July, Americans will learn the outcome of a remarkable number of major cases in the U.S. Supreme…
The anniversary of an 1865 announcement by a Union military official in Texas has grown over the years into a celebration of…
On June 19, 1964, the Senate ended a long debate, overcoming a record-setting filibuster to join the House in approving the Civil…
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled against a group of medical associations and doctors who opposed the use of mifepristone, a…
On June 13, 1866, the House approved a Senate-proposed version of the 14th Amendment, sending it to the states for approval. Two…
When can government officials decline to publish or block public comments made on their social media accounts? The Supreme Court…
On June 10, 1968, the Court ruled that a police officer may stop and search a citizen on the street if the officer has…
On June 9, 1969, a near unanimous Senate confirmed federal judge Warren Burger as Chief Justice of the United States, starting a…
The Supreme Court’s current term is heading toward a noteworthy June, with major decisions expected about former President…
Today marks the anniversary of the landmark Olmstead v. United States wiretapping case decided by the Supreme Court, which had a…
It was on this day in 1916 that the Senate voted to confirm attorney Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court, ending an ugly and…
On this day in 1806, future President Andrew Jackson nearly died in a duel when he killed his opponent, a fellow plantation owner.
The late Justice Antonin Scalia once told this reporter: “There is no relationship between the difficulty of a case and its…
On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the legality of racial segregation in America. Plessy…
After being impeached, President Andrew Johnson survived his 1868 Senate trial by just one vote. And to this day, how that vote…
After months of debate, restrictions on the ownership of the popular app TikTok are heading to a federal court, raising a series…
May marks two key anniversaries in the conflict between the United States and Mexico in that set in motion the Civil War—and led…
On May 12, 1970, the U.S. Senate finally confirmed Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court, ending a 391-day-long effort to replace…
On this day in 1754, Benjamin Franklin published one of the most famous cartoons in history: the Join or Die woodcut. Franklin’s…
The recent protests about the Israel-Hamas war at universities around the nation are drawing attention to the most basic of First…
In this look back at the landmark Brown v. Board in 1954 decision about desegregation, Ronald K.L. Collins and Judge Thomas L.…
The 27th Amendment is the most recent amendment to the Constitution, and its existence today can be traced to a college student…
May 1 is Law Day, an event that honors “liberty, justice and equality under law which our forefathers bequeathed” to the…
On the anniversary of Oliver Ellsworth’s birth, Constitution Daily looks back an important founder who helped forge a compromise…
James Monroe was the only president, aside from George Washington, to run unopposed for re-election. But that may not be the most…
On Thursday, the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court tackled a question “for the ages” in the Trump v. United States…
On April 25, 1906, future Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan was born in New Jersey. During his nearly 34 years at the…
The final briefs in former President Donald Trump’s latest case at the Supreme Court have been submitted related to a former…
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Donald J. Trump v. United States, a case about former President…
On April 21, 1898, Spain broke off diplomatic relations with the United States in a long-simmering dispute over Cuba. The brief…
The American Revolutionary War started on April 19, 1775 at the towns of Lexington and Concord. But how accurate are some of the…
Today marks the 229th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s death, which drew many different responses from the citizens of…
Before the U.S. Supreme Court takes up former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution in the…
On April 22, 2024, the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of local government ordinances regulating the use of…
On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from his assassin’s wounds. But if John Wilkes Booth’s plot were entirely…
It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theater. Lincoln died the…
On April 12, 1945, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died in Georgia. Harry Truman along with an…
On the anniversary of his birthday, Constitution Daily looks back at the career of Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice and…
On this day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the…
On April 15, 2024, the Supreme Court will start its final scheduled session for the 2023 term, with major cases about abortion…
It was on April 2, 1917 that Jeanette Rankin became the first woman in Congress. But within days, she became the target of…
The only people who may have actually believed the Supreme Court was getting out of the abortion issue by eliminating the…
The recent House passage of a bill banning TikTok from app stores in the United States has ignited a national constitutional…
The Constitution of the United States is rarely changed, but that has not stopped speculation about the next amendment to our…
On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would…
On April 25, 2024, Supreme Court will consider former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from conspiracy and…
On March 12, 1959, Congress approved Hawaii for admission to the union as the 50th state, marking the last time statehood was…
On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. And much of it…
On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired upon a group of rowdy colonists, killing five and wounding others.
The Supreme Court’s decision blocking states from removing former President Donald Trump from primary election ballots was…
It was on this day in 1789 that the federal government started to operate under the terms of the U.S. Constitution, as the…
On Tuesday, March 5, voters in 15 states will play a major role in selecting the two major party candidates in this year’s…
On this day in 1781, the Articles of Confederation, our first constitution, became the official law of the land. It didn’t last…
After the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas strip—the worst in American history—many Americans learned the phrase “bump…
On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson learned of a shocking piece of paper that made America’s entry into World War I…
On this day in 1870, a Black politician was seated in the United States Senate for the first time, but only after Republican…
The national holiday called Washington’s Birthday may have passed, but today is George Washington’s real birthday. Here are…
One of the Supreme Court’s biggest cases this term involves the content moderation rights of websites—including YouTube…
In the face of future public health emergencies like the Coronavirus, a precedential Supreme Court decision about the…
On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued his most-controversial executive order, an act that sent more than…
On February 14, America will observe the birthday of the iconic Frederick Douglass. While the year of his birth has been narrowed…
In closely watched arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday, many of the justices questioned the broad impact of a…
It’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday today, but you wouldn’t know it by watching the number of states that observe the day as a…
More than 70 “friend-of-the-court” briefs have been filed in the crucial constitutional battle over Donald Trump’s…
It’s the birthday of Ronald Reagan, and it is not hard to find some interesting facts about the 40th President.
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Trump v. Anderson, the case about the 14th Amendment and Donald…
On Feb. 8, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a potentially historic case that could affect former President Donald…
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt shocked America by introducing a plan to expand the Supreme Court, to gain…
On February 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico without President James K. Polk’s knowledge. The United…
Today is the birthday of the only person to run for, and win, the presidency four times: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Here’s a list of…
On January 28, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated attorney Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. Although Brandeis is a…
An obscure incident involving the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause is getting some new attention in the lead-up to…
On January 19, 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated little-known Ohio lawyer Morrison Waite to replace Chief Justice Salmon…
Daniel Webster was one of the seminal figures of 19th century America as an orator and politician. Perhaps less known is…
The fight to make the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years, a lot of campaigning, and guest appearances…
On this day in 1755 or 1757, Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean. If you need a quick primer on Hamilton, here are the…
On January 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt died suddenly in his sleep at the age of 60. Overlooked now is that fact that the former…
When the U.S. Supreme Court term began last fall, the docket contained a number of major cases but had little of the potential…
The Constitution faced a major test on this day in 1920 when raids ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer saw thousands of…
On the occasion of his birthday, Constitution Daily looks at some unusual facts related to one of the more controversial…
In one of the biggest cases of the current term, the Supreme Court’s calendar for January 2024 features arguments about the…
In December 1944, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most controversial decisions, which upheld the constitutionality of…
On December 16, 1773, a group of Colonists destroyed a large British tea shipment in Boston harbor. So did this act of defiance…
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791). Here’s…
When James Madison spoke to the First Congress he proposed nearly 20 amendments as a Bill of Rights, and not the 10 we all know…
The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor played a key role in some of the Supreme Court’s major decisions during her nearly 25…
On December 14, 1799, George Washington died at his home after a brief illness and after losing about 40 percent of his blood. So…
On Dec. 19, 2023, the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the Supreme Court upon the Lincoln catafalque. The…
On December 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ended a Florida vote recount in the presidential election contest between George W. Bush…
Each December, there are several disputes about the use of religious symbols in holiday displays in public locations. But did last…
It’s quite possible that many Americans have seen the art work of Gilbert Stuart more than any other painter. But what do you…
The Supreme Court announced this morning that retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who left the bench in 2006, has…
On November 27, 1973, the United States Senate became the first legislative house to act under the 25th Amendment, when it voted…
On November 24, 1784, future President Zachary Taylor was born in Virginia. Taylor became an unexpected obstacle to slavery’s…
Fewer leaders had lower public expectations than Chester Alan Arthur, but fewer people knew the 21st President was dealing with a…
The next round of oral arguments at the Supreme Court starts on November 27, 2023, and there’s plenty on the docket. The…
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government into early 2024, pending…
It was on this day in 1789 that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote what was probably his last great quote, a saying about the…
On November 9, 1953, the United States Supreme Court upheld a prior, controversial decision that allowed major league baseball to…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new test for weighing the constitutionality of gun regulations comes face-to-face on Tuesday with the…
On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, in…
In a campaign that rivals any current presidential election for insults and rancor, John Adams defeated Thomas Jefferson on this…
On November 3, 1884, the United States Supreme Court issued one of its most controversial decisions, stating that American Indians…
Presidents James Knox Polk and Warren Gamaliel Harding have one thing in common aside from a stay in the White House: the same…
James Freed, appointed city manager of Port Huron, Michigan, in 2014, and Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and T.J. Zane, elected…
The National Constitution Center honored acclaimed journalist Judy Woodruff and patriotic philanthropist and business leader David…
On October 23, 1987, the United States Senate held one of the most-controversial votes on a Supreme Court nominee in its history,…
On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of…
In today’s popular culture, William Seward is best known for his association with Abraham Lincoln. But his name is also forever…
Each year, the Supreme Court starts its new term on the first Monday of the month of October, an annual event that goes back to…
The current controversy over the Speaker of the House of Representatives has highlighted that position’s role as one of the most…
Today marks the birthday of the one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes, who took office amid a…
On October 2, 2023, the Supreme Court starts a new term as it considers another round of significant cases that could have a…
President Abraham Lincoln altered the course of the Civil War and American society when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued…
On September 19, 1796, a Philadelphia newspaper published one of the greatest documents in American history: George Washington’s…
William Howard Taft is a truly unique American figure who led two branches of government, was a wrestling champion and the…
On Sept. 13, 2023, the National Constitution Center, in partnership with a coalition of leading free speech organizations,…
Each September, Americans commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution with two federally recognized…
On September 12, 1958, a unanimous Supreme Court declined a Little Rock School District request to delay desegregation mandated by…
The summer of 2023 has been an unusual season of fallout from recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions about guns, abortion, religion,…
On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks carried out against the United States would become the catalyst for at least two wars,…
On September 6, 1901, the popular President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, while his Vice…
The first Monday in September is celebrated nationally as Labor Day. So how did we get the holiday and why is no one quite sure…
It was on this day in 1807 that former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason charges. The trial was truly a “Trial…
On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall…
The United States capital of Washington, D.C., burned on this day in 1814, but it may have been an act of nature that forced the…
On August 23, 1784, the self-proclaimed state of Franklin broke away from North Carolina and attempted an experiment at self-rule,…
Nearly 50 years ago, Justice William Brennan Jr. urged lawyers and others to look to state constitutions for more protection of…
On the anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification, we look back at a young politician whose unexpected vote in the…
On this day in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, ensuring that the amendment guaranteeing a…
One of the federal government’s most powerful laws is also known as one of its most controversial statutes: the Espionage Act.
There were a lot of events that led to American Independence, but it was on this date that the seeds of revolution were planted in…
A millionaire businessman becomes President in this first try at an elected office. That’s one of 10 fascinating facts about…
It was on this day in 1964 that a joint session of Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, an act that led to the Vietnam…
Most people aren’t big fans of a national income tax, but it was on this day back in 1861 that the first one was levied by the…
August 2, 1776 is one of the most important but least celebrated days in American history, when 56 members of the Second…
A political deal to secure the vote of a Democratic senator in the recent debt ceiling battle has teed up a U.S. Supreme Court…
It’s the birthday of a Founding Father whose name you know today as part of a controversial political term.
Last week, a 6-3 Supreme Court said the First Amendment allows a business offering “expressive” services to discriminate based…
July 4th marks the annual holiday that celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. So how much do you know about…
On July 3, 1978, the Supreme Court issued its historic verdict in the George Carlin “seven dirty words” case, a decision that…
A divided Supreme Court on Friday has struck down an expansive debt-relief program for student loans created during the Covid-19…
With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the Court’s major remaining cases by…
On June 30, 1921, President Warren Harding announced that former President William Howard Taft would become the new Chief Justice…
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the use of affirmative action in admissions programs at two universities was…
On June 29, 1972, the Court decided in a complicated ruling, Furman v. Georgia, that the death penalty application in three cases…
On June 28, 2010, a deeply divided Supreme Court upholds gun-ownership rights within homes on a national basis, expanding on a…
On June 28, 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, laying the groundwork for…
Setting a precedent with important implications today, the Supreme Court’s decision from 1997 in Printz v. United States…
On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in the controversial, landmark case of Kelo v. City of New London, redefining
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent and surprising voting rights decision overshadowed another civil rights victory that same day, a…
The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States’ flag has been part of American life for generations, but not without some…
In honor of Flag Day, here are 10 fascinating facts about the Stars and Stripes that may surprise you!
On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress asked five delegates to write the draft version of the Declaration of…
On June 8, 1789, James Madison addressed the House of Representatives and introduced a proposed Bill of Rights to the…
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act, which marked the end of a long debate and…
Eight years ago, a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected death row inmate Richard Glossip’s claim that a drug used in Oklahoma…
On May 28, 1861, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney directly challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s wartime suspension of…
For many people, Memorial Day is the symbol of summer’s start. What’s lost to some today is its original meaning - and day.
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers two important cases about affirmative action and higher education, Constitution Daily looks at…
It was on this day in 1787 when the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia started in earnest and the first votes were taken at…
On May 24, 1937, the Supreme Court decided in two separate but related cases that the Social Security Act of 1935 was…
The decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954 is perhaps the most famous of all Supreme Court cases, as it…
Today marks the anniversary of an important Supreme Court case that helped to end the Hollywood studio system and fuel a young…
A group of commercial fishing companies soon will have the opportunity to persuade the Supreme Court of the United States to do…
Today marks the birthday of Ulysses Grant, who played a unique role in American history. Here is a look at a military leader who…
A lawsuit in California about the use of a car horn at a political protest is bringing back a contested question involving the…
On the occasion of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, we have 10 interesting facts about the versatile Founding Father.
How did the Senate get the filibuster? The unique procedure may have been created thanks to some comments made by Aaron Burr.
On March 26, 1962, the Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr, finding that it had the power to review the redistricting of state…
Could British troops evict colonists from their homes, eat their food and use their facilities? That’s not exactly true, even…
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry signaled the coming revolution when he spoke at a Virginia convention and allegedly implored:…
Thomas McKean was a President before George Washington and supported judicial review before John Marshall. But today, McKean is…
When the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, half of its foreign-born delegates were born in Ireland. For St.…
On March 10, 1848, the Senate approved a treaty that led to California and much of the Southwest joining the United States. But…
Today is the anniversary of one of the most important decisions in Supreme Court history that affected the civil rights movement…
Some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court may have thought—or hoped—that overturning the abortion rights landmark decision, Roe…
On March 2, 1824, the Supreme Court ruled in Gibbons v. Ogden, holding that Congress may regulate interstate commerce.
On this day in 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting the number of terms served by the President. The move ended a…
It was on this day in 1801 that the House finally decided a tied presidential election because of a constitutional flaw: the…
On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a new law that would admit women as members of the Supreme Court bar…
On February 9, 1773, future U.S. president William Henry Harrison was born in Virginia. The enigmatic Harrison is best known for…
It was on this day that a constitutional crisis was averted when the relatively new 12th Amendment to the Constitution settled the…
It was on this day in 1790 that the United States Supreme Court opened for business. The court back then bared little resemblance…
On this day in 1898, Joseph McKenna took his oath and joined the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy of Justice Stephen Field.
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that continues to divide the nation to this day.
In his day, Benjamin Franklin was Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg, and Henry Ford, all rolled into one. Here’s a look…
It was on this day in 1919 that the Constitution gained a new amendment. However, the 18th Amendment, which made Prohibition the…
On January 14, 1784, the Continental Congress barely met a deadline to ratify the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the…
On January 12, 1932, a recent widow became the first woman to win election to the United States Senate, when Hattie Ophelia Wyatt…
On January 9, 1776, the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense became the first viral mass communications event in America,…
In the U.S. Supreme Court, oral arguments usually focus on one or two legal questions that the justices have agreed to decide. But…
The current controversy over the Speaker of the House of Representatives has highlighted that position’s role as one of the most…
It was on this day in 1959 that Alaska was admitted to the union as the 49th state- ending a process that started 13 years…
Since 1789, the Senate has confirmed 128 nominations to the Supreme Court, but seven successful nominees never took an oath of…
January 1 is one of the most noteworthy days in American history, marking President Abraham Lincoln’s decision to issue the…
On December 30, 1853, a treaty was signed where Mexico sold the United States 29,000 square miles of territory for what eventually…
On December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent officially ended the War of 1812, but the delayed news couldn’t stop nearly 1,000…
Free speech has been a major factor behind the internet’s dramatic growth in the past 25 years. But two cases at the Supreme…
Life in the newly formed United States changed forever on December 20, 1803 when the American flag flew over New Orleans,…
The Supreme Court has been front and center in recent years due to a series of landmark decisions, and the year 2023 will likely…
In the first two parts of Constitution Daily’s series on the filibuster, we looked at its origins in the earliest sessions of…
In part two of a special three-part series, Constitution Daily looks at the filibuster’s emergence in the Senate era of…
One of the classic images in modern film is from Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington from 1939, when Jimmy Stewart’s…
On December 5, 1933, three states voted to repeal Prohibition, putting the ratification of the 21st Amendment into place. But did…
On December 4, 1839, the Whig Party held its first national convention, an important milestone in its rise to political power.
Today marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort…
On the anniversary of his birth, Constitution Daily looks back at what the British leader and author Sir Winston Churchill had to…
This Thursday, Americans celebrate a Thanksgiving holiday that has its roots in colonial traditions. But was that holiday actually…
President John F. Kennedy’s death on November 22, 1963 traumatized a nation and led a united Congress to make a key…
On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, widely considered one of the greatest speeches in American…
It was on this day in 1777 that the Articles of Confederation, the first American constitution, was sent to the 13 states for…
Millions of Americans will take time out to honor our military on the traditional time of 11:11 a.m. on November 11. But there was…
The National Constitution Center honored Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the 34th annual Liberty Medal ceremony on…
On November 1, 1765, the hated Stamp Act authorized by King George III went into effect in the colonies, despite months of…
It’s hard to imagine America without the Statue of Liberty, but the icon of freedom didn’t make official public debut until…
On October 24, 1861, a group of delegates in 39 Virginia counties decided to start the process of forming their own state during…
Book selections at public school libraries are back in the headlines after a new lawsuit is questioning the constitutional power…
In early November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will receive the National Constitution Center’s 2022 Liberty Medal,…
On this day in 1869, former President Franklin Pierce passed away in New Hampshire. Pierce was regarded as an ethical hard worker,…
By tradition, U.S. Supreme Court justices do not speak to each other about cases they will decide until after oral arguments. But…
The Stamp Act Congress met on this day in New York in 1765, a meeting that led nine Colonies to declare the English Crown had no…
Understanding why the justices reigned in the president in 1952, and how they interpreted the Constitution in doing so, helps us…
If you are a presidential historian or a fan of facial hair, you probably know a little about Chester Alan Arthur. For the rest of…
After an intense blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court term, like the one just ended, the justices often have opted for a low key term.…
On September 28, 1787, the congress under our first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, agreed to submit a new…
Should Americans be forced to pledge allegiance to the American flag or be allowed to deface the flag as a sign or protest? What…
The date of September 13, 1788 isn’t celebrated as a major anniversary in American history, but it was a big day in the creation…
On the occasion of President Lyndon Johnson’s birthday, the National Constitution Center looks at 10 interesting facts about one…
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote nationally on August 18, 1920, so why is Women’s Equality Day on August 26th…
On June 17, 1972, police caught five men breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in…
On the evening of August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding died in a San Francisco hotel room. Beyond that, the details of the…
After a recent television discussion of the religion decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the just-ended term, a viewer wrote in…
For now, the Supreme Court will not reconsider a landmark decision, New York Times v. Sullivan, that protects media outlets from…
It is a fact of American history that three of the five Founding Father Presidents died on Independence Day. But was it just a…
It was on this day that Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down New York’s concealed carry gun law and revoked women’s…
With the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade, a look back at overturned landmark cases shows the rarity of such actions.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued its opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson case, overturning precedents related to abortion first set…
The U.S. Supreme Court may wrap up its term in the next two weeks and many in the nation are watching closely for potential…
It was on this day in 1916 that the National Guard officially got its name after Congress passed an important, if not overlooked,…
On May 28, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an important part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s NIRA plan, when the…
The recent, leaked draft abortion opinion undoubtedly brings internal harm to the U.S. Supreme Court and external harm to its…
With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the court’s major remaining cases by…
On May 11, 1894, several thousand train workers started an unannounced strike at the Pullman Company in Illinois. Over the next…
On May 2, 2022, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen spoke at the dedication ceremony for newly installed…
The U.S. Supreme Court has a number of old decisions that the justices no longer apply because time and the nation’s…
National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen writes that Elon Musk, in his effort to buy Twitter, has signaled…
On this day in 1789, the First Congress under our current Constitution met in its first joint session in New York and undertook an…
It was 51 years ago today that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis. The…
On March 29, 1961, Ohio and Kansas voted to ratify the Constitution’s 23rd Amendment. Today, that amendment remains obscure and…
Today marks an interesting anniversary in U.S. history—the first known appearance of a huge loaf of bread at the White House, as…
U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominees have been called a “Kabuki dance,” a subtle minuet,” and even a…
Grover Cleveland stands alone in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive terms. On the anniversary of his…
James Madison, the father of the Constitution, has a birthday today. How much do you know about the fourth President?
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, has a birthday today. But how much do you know about one of the most controversial…
On March 3, 1919, the Supreme Court decided Schenck v. United States, the first in a line of major First Amendment cases to…
On March 3, 1820, Congress approved the Missouri compromise, a law that maintained a balance in the Senate between free and slave…
On February 24, 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall issued the Supreme Court’s decision in Marbury v. Madison, establishing the…
On February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court decided Muller v. Oregon, unanimously upholding an Oregon law setting a 10-hour limit on…
At first glance, climate change and vaccine mandates seem to have nothing in common, but the two are linked in a U.S. Supreme…
Constitution Daily looks at two “what if” scenarios that would have given us 10 different Presidents through history. What…
Phillis Wheatley was the first globally recognized African American female poet. She came to prominence during the American…
With the official announcement of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court after its current term, all…
In two recent Supreme Court opinions about abortion, the constitutional theory of nullification was cited by several justices. But…
National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen notes the upcoming retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, as the…
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If anyone thought the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority with three relatively new justices would be cautious about…
On this day in 1862, Noah Swayne was confirmed by the Senate to replace Justice John McLean, one of two dissenters in the Dred…
In today’s political climate, the words “sedition” and “censorship” are being tossed around in public discussions. But…
Constitution Daily looks back at the inspirational story of Martin Luther King Jr., and uncovers some interesting facts about the…
Robert C. Weaver had a strong public record as a Civil Rights leader and a government official, but there was still controversy…
On December 31, 1999, the United States officially handed the Panama Canal over to Panama’s government, ending a long saga that…
On December 27, 1771, future Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, Jr., was born in South Carolina. Johnson has attracted a…
One of the broadest acts of presidential power happened on this day in 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson issued an order for the…
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During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, two Georges commanded much attention at Philadelphia: George Washington and his…
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More than 130 friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed by anti-abortion and abortion rights groups in the Mississippi abortion…
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The United States government is a powerful party when it goes into federal court. Just how powerful will be tested when the…
With the Mississippi and Texas abortion cases on the docket now, the U.S. Supreme Court’s current term will be defined by what…
The first president of the Continental Congress was George Washington’s close friend and Thomas Jefferson’s cousin. So who was…
On October 16, 1962, Justice Byron R. White joined the Supreme Court as one of two appointments made by President John F.…
Trials that draw widespread public attention present a special challenge for the judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers. That is…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday began a new and potentially controversial term under the shadow of justices’ concerns about the…
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Today we celebrate the birthday of former President Jimmy Carter. The Georgia native is certainly unique in comparison with other…
Constitution Day is one of our country’s most overlooked holidays, but Sept. 17 should not go unnoticed. The foundational…
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Are we becoming a nation of vigilantes? A recent opinion article by two legal scholars suggested the answer is yes.
Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery on September 3, 1838, aided by a disguise and job skills he had learned while forced to…
The U.S. Supreme Court in the last few terms has been carving a legacy of religion-favored rulings in such areas as employment,…
On this day in 1786, a popular uprising began in Massachusetts. Shays’ Rebellion was one of several critical events that led to…
As the Panama Canal celebrates its birthday today, the bold act of one U.S. President still resonates as a stroke of policy genius…
Requirements to wear facemasks in the fight against Covid-19 are back in the news after some political leaders have issued…
The Covid-19 delta variant’s spread may force federal and state authorities to re-examine public safety policies related to…
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act, a centerpiece of the civil rights movement that…
A recent National Labor Relations Board decision will allow giant inflatable rats to remain at some union protest sites. But the…
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On July 27, 1789, Congress created the State Department, which became an important part of the Executive Branch established under…
The state of Mississippi this week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule the two foundational precedents for a woman’s right…
It’s a sad day for some historically minded Philadelphians: It’s the anniversary of the congressional act that moved the…
The Supreme Court is an institution long revered for its integrity, legal prowess, and robust constitutional scholarship and…
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On July 6, 1854, disgruntled voters in a new political party named its first candidates to contest the Democrats over the issue of…
On June 30, 1971, President Richard Nixon issued a public statement congratulating Ohio as the 38th state to approve the 26th…
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During U.S. Supreme Court arguments in April in the case of the cursing cheerleader, Justice Stephen Breyer was frustrated with…
On this day in 1984, the Supreme Court decided Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, which created the doctrine that…
In a closely watched decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a public school student’s off-campus Snapchat rant was…
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In three major U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Thursday, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. found himself with losing arguments and he wrote…
President Joseph Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law on Thursday, adding Juneteenth to the list of…
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its Loving v. Virginia decision, which struck down laws that banned marriages between…
Although the U.S. Supreme Court’s term has not ended, its next term is already shaping up as a potential blockbuster with…
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The right to vote has long been considered one of the cherished freedoms key to American democracy. But voting rights in general…
John Hancock and his signature are two of the best-known elements related to the Declaration of Independence. But how much do you…
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On May 20, 1996, the Supreme Court issued an early landmark decision supporting the right of gay people under the Constitution to…
It would be difficult for at least some U.S. Supreme Court justices not to think about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when…
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The U.S. Supreme Court wraps up oral arguments this week and begins an intense period of drafting opinions in its pending cases.…
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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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The Ku Klux Klan Act may be a law from the Reconstruction era, but it still relevant today as a way to address modern civil rights…
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Almost a decade before the U.S. Constitution was signed into law, the first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit…
One of the Supreme Court’s landmark First Amendment cases could be redefined early this summer as the justices decide a modern…
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Some issues return in cases to the U.S. Supreme Court year after year in hopes that the timing is right for review by the…
On March 28, 1834, the U.S. Senate censured President Andrew Jackson in a tug-of-war that had questionable constitutional roots…
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National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen says the Founders would have been appalled by the attack on the…
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The ancient adage says that “a man’s house is his castle.” The Supreme Court would add, “with exceptions.” Next week,…
The growing concerns about the coronavirus in the United States could lead to government officials considering isolation and…
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On March 7, 1965, civil rights activists were attacked by Alabama police near a bridge in Selma, Alabama, in a moment that shocked…
On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case, which had a direct impact on the coming of…
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Do U.S. Supreme Court justices ever regret their own decisions? The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said a mentor told her:…
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It was on this day in 1967 that two states, Nevada and Minnesota, made the Constitution’s 25th amendment a reality, clearing up…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s late-night Friday order slapping down most of California’s pandemic restrictions on religious…
The Constitution’s first amendment after the Bill of Rights represented the first use of congressional power to contradict a…
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Imagine a world with a federal income tax; if you were an American citizen before 1913, with a few exceptions you didn’t have to…
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By the end of the current U.S. Supreme Court term or shortly afterward, a justice will retire, predict some court scholars and…
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On Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th President of the United States. Here is a look at some facts about the…
The 25th Amendment is a non-starter in the effort to remove President Donald Trump from office. Impeachment may stall in the U.S.…
The House of Representatives adopted an article of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, setting in motion a…
The National Constitution Center recently conducted a fascinating exercise in which it brought together three groups to produce…
The expected impeachment proceedings on Wednesday against President Donald J. Trump will surface one of the Constitution’s most…
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With the end of Donald Trump’s term set for January 20, much attention will be focused on the outgoing president’s final…
After the events of January 6, 2021, the Constitution’s 25th Amendment was back in the news, in the wake of Wednesday’s…
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, Congress will meet as required by the Constitution to certify the winner of the presidential…
Ted Cruz and other senators are requesting a special electoral commission to investigate the fairness of votes in the 2020…
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The next public step in the 2020 presidential election will happen on January 6, 2021, when Congress meets to validate the…
The Constitution gives the U.S. Supreme Court a special type of jurisdiction over cases “in which a State shall be Party.” So…
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December 2 is a landmark day in Senate history, marking that chamber’s historic censure of Joseph McCarthy for his conduct…
Earlier in Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.’s legal career, he represented the government as deputy solicitor general in a 1992…
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Today we celebrate the birthday of Justice Louis Brandeis, who made a lasting impact on American constitutional law both before…
A decade after enactment of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked once…
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The 2020 election contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden seems headed into overtime, as the…
On November 5, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in office in an unprecedented act that would be barred by a…
On Election Day, an old topic will get new life when political pundits discuss the chance of a deadlocked presidential contest…
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New Justice Amy Coney Barrett will hear her first Supreme Court argument on Monday and when she does, she will be one of four…
Theodore Roosevelt was one of most dynamic Presidents in White House history, and on the occasion of his birthday, here are 10…
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Last week, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee members pressed Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on whether the landmark…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has been an issue in presidential elections throughout most of its history, although perhaps never quite…
The Electoral College is a uniquely American institution and no stranger to controversy. But legally contested presidential…
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President Donald J. Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis has sparked a flood of news stories about the 25th Amendment and its possible…
To some it seemed like a technicality, but on this day in 1789, President George Washington succeeded in getting the First…
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The late Justice Byron White famously said that with each new justice, there is a new Supreme Court. Americans soon will be able…
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress made a highly-anticipated move in arguably the most important congressional session in…
On Saturday, President Donald J. Trump said he would seek to nominate a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on…
On September 21, 1780, Revolutionary War hero Benedict Arnold turned his back on his country in a secret meeting with a top…
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A U.S. House committee this week asked the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to investigate possible federal Hatch Act violations by…
On this day in 1789, George Washington signed into law the act that created the Treasury Department. The move became crucial to…
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The United States Postal Service, now under criticism from President Donald Trump, has its roots in the U.S. Constitution, and the…
Recent comments from scholars about vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s citizenship status have revived a constitutional…
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Today, Elbridge Gerry is best known for being the force and namesake behind “Gerrymandering.” That has obscured the…
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s term did not end with its blockbuster decisions on President Donald Trump’s taxes. Before October,…
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On this day in 1947, Congress changed the order of who can succeed the President and Vice President in office, more closely…
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In the first entry into the series on “Forgotten Founders,” we explored Gouverneur Morris. Today, we examine James Wilson, the…
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a series of decisions over time, has taught Americans that their constitutional rights are limited.…
On the anniversary of the 14th Amendment’s ratification, Constitution Daily looks at 10 historic Supreme Court cases about due…
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A new Virginia law going into effect on Wednesday may serve as the catalyst to settle a battle over iconic two Robert E. Lee…
One of the most respected constitutional law scholars of the 20th century, the late Paul Freund, once said the U.S. Supreme Court…
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Today is the birthday of the Great Seal of the United States. So how close did we really come to having a turkey instead of an…
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On June 18, 1812, President James Madison signed a resolution, approved in Congress, declaring war against Great Britain. Over the…
As the U.S. Supreme Court’s term moves into its final weeks, the challenges for a Chief Justice who insists the institution is…
Former vice president Aaron Burr usually isn’t credited as a Founding Father, but there is one instance where Burr directly…
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Today, we launch a new series on Constitution Daily remembering “Forgotten Founders,” from the ratification period through the…
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The U.S. Supreme Court interprets the law, we are told. But sometimes, the court makes the law. One of those times—more than 50…
Allowing the public to listen in in real time for the first time in history—the Supreme Court heard remote arguments via…
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On May 21, 1832, a group of delegates supporting President Andrew Jackson met in Baltimore to conduct the first official…
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Philadelphia was the early capital of the United States after the Constitution was ratified, but on May 14, 1800, the nation’s…
Much of the debate surrounding the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has centered around the question: what are…
The case of the “faithless electors” at the Supreme Court this week sounds like a Sherlock Holmes mystery. In reality, it is a…
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The U.S. Supreme Court steps back into the culture wars this week in telephonic arguments involving birth control and…
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Is the U.S. Supreme Court searching for an “off-ramp,” or a way to avoid deciding the legal and highly politicized battle over…
Although Congress and the president have been the focal point of the government’s response to coronavirus, the Supreme Court has…
Since its establishment on April 24, 1800, the Library of Congress has grown to become the largest library in the world, with more…
April 23 marks the birthday of James Buchanan, the man regarded by many historians as one of the worst presidents of all time. So…
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The coronavirus pandemic has raised a host of constitutional questions. Here are some key takeaways.
On April 15, 1873, the Supreme Court decided in Bradwell v. Illinois, striking down the Myra Bradwell’s challenge to the…
Constitution Daily contributor Marcia Coyle looks at what may still be—with an unexpected element—the most significant Supreme…
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On April 10, 1967, the United States Supreme Court held oral arguments in a landmark case about a Virginia law that said marriages…
As America battles the COVID-19 virus, speculation has started that a prolonged public health crisis could delay or even postpone…
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On March 29, 1875, in the case of Minor v. Happersett, the Supreme Court rejected to claim of Virginia Minor that under the 14th…
Before the Supreme Court suspended oral arguments due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus—it heard two of the…
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Recent controversies over sentencing recommendations for President Trump’s associate Roger Stone, as well as a series of pardons…
On March 1, 1842, Justice Joseph Story wrote the first major opinion regarding the power of the federal government over slavery.…
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President George Washington’s birthday was last Saturday, February 22. Although he was born 288 years ago, Washington’s life…
The recent pardon and clemency orders issued by President Donald Trump are reviving an enduring debate about the executive’s…
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In the midst of growing polarization and the aftermath of a divisive impeachment trial, some have called for a revival of civic…
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that would rescind the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights…
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The impeachment trial of President Trump concluded on February 5 with the Senate voting to acquit him on charges of abuse of…
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The ERA remains caught up in the surprisingly unsettled question of the process of adding a proposed amendment to the…
The Senate voted on Wednesday against two articles of impeachment presented by the House against President Donald J. Trump. A…
On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in by the clerk of the Court, Charles Elmore Cropley. When the ceremony finished on…
On the occasion of Rosa Park’s birthday, Constitution Daily looks at her journey from a childhood in the segregated south to her…
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A lawsuit over K-12 scholarships has sparked a battle over the religion clauses of the Constitution.
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On January 24, 1993, retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall died at the age of 84. Marshall was one of the best-known…
In the first day of the Senate Impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, Chief Justice John Roberts made a reference to an…
One of the most important, but least discussed, constitutional amendments made government more responsive by greatly shorting the…
Just before the Senate began the third presidential impeachment trial in American history, Ken Starr and Joan Biskupic previewed…
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives formally delivered two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump to the…
On January 15, 2020, the Virginia legislature passed a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The move sets off an…
The impending Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump could see an important figure in the national spotlight who is…
Richard Nixon was one of the best-known American politicians of the 20th century’s second half, and one of the most…
President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress on January 8, 1918 made the United States a global player in the world of foreign…
Late last Thursday night, the Department of Defense announced that it had killed Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike on Baghdad…
On the occasion of Millard Fillmore’s birthday, Constitution Daily looks back at a forgotten President and his role in the…
Now that the House of Representatives has impeached President Donald J. Trump for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors,…
The long-running dispute over the constitutionality of the massive federal health insurance law – the Affordable Care Act, or…
The House of Representatives adopted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening, setting in…
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Setting itself a constitutional task that could have a huge impact on presidential politics in 2020, the Supreme Court on Friday…
The House Judiciary Committee has introduced a resolution proposing two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump.…
From the debates of the Founders in Philadelphia in 1787 to today’s congressional impeachment inquiry aimed at President Donald…
After the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from four leading constitutional scholars about the meaning of “high Crimes…
On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified after the state of Georgia approved the amendment as it was proposed to the…
On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson used his constitutional powers to issue an executive order to ask for a special…
On November 28, 1975, President Gerald Ford made his only Supreme Court nomination when he selected federal judge John Paul…
The presidential pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey has become an annual event, but the peace between the fowl and the White House…
Two new court decisions – both historic, but both leaving a good deal of uncertainty – emerged Monday in constitutional…
On November 21, 1969, a divided Senate refused to confirm Clement Haynsworth, President Richard Nixon’s first replacement for…
In a Supreme Court plea that almost surely is unique in American history, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on…
A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol Agent is back at the Supreme Court a…
As public hearings start in the House’s impeachment proceedings about President Donald Trump, the National Constitution Center…
President Donald Trump’s lawyers plan, within the next 10 days, to go to the Supreme Court with a plea to rule – before the…
A three-panel federal appeals court has upheld a request from New York County’s District Attorney for President Donald Trump’s…
On Thursday, the House of Representative formally advanced impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after rules were…
In a special Halloween feature, Constitution Daily looks at two real-life body snatching stories related to three U.S. Presidents,…
What type of misbehavior rises to the level of impeachment charges and trials in Congress? The first three impeachment proceedings…
On October 27, 2019, the National Constitution Center awarded its 31st annual Liberty Medal to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy,…
On October 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers is published in support of the newly signed Constitution.
Abortion became a major focus for the first time on the Democratic presidential primary debate stage, when Senator Kamala Harris…
Lawyers for President Donald J. Trump and a state prosecutor in New York have reached an agreement to put before the Supreme Court…
The Supreme Court has reopened the issue of the strict limit on the power of Presidents to maintain control over some of the most…
A Friday morning ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit could prove a watershed moment in the ongoing struggle…
When we think about trial by jury in criminal cases, we all probably envision a 12-member jury that must reach a unanimous verdict…
On Monday, the first day of the new Supreme Court term, the Court heard argument in Kahler v. Kansas, a case that could generate…
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two major cases about Title VII and discrimination based on sexual…
Returning to an abortion rights issue that it had decided earlier but with a bench that is now changed, the Supreme Court agreed…
On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry would be made against President Donald Trump into…
In a stinging rebuke of Britain’s new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and a strong exertion of its own power, the United…
How many bathrooms are in the White House? Who is the tallest president? Read the most asked among 3,000 questions we received on…
An idea with centuries of British tradition behind it (but one that never had a chance of catching on in post-Revolutionary…
When the Supreme Court reopens a new session in October, awaiting the Justices in the pile of work that built up over their summer…
Hawaii joined the Union on this day in 1959, an act that remains historically significant but not without controversy.
Today marks the anniversary of an unusual event in White House history when President John Tyler’s veto of a banking bill led to…
The nation’s best-known transgender student, Gavin Grimm, has won his discrimination case against his old high school – for…
On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.
Constitution Daily looks at recent mentions of the Constitution in the Democratic debates, including discussions about First…
Today marks the anniversary of the passing of Andrew Johnson, perhaps the most-criticized president in American history.
On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act, a landmark law made possible by one…
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston looks at how the United States has considered and debated political representation…
Saying there is not enough time to go on waging a court battle over adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, the…
With government lawyers under pressure from President Trump looking for a new way to justify asking everyone in America about…
In a decision that seems sure to have a significant impact on American politics over the coming decade, the Trump Administration…
For nearly 18 years, Congress has been studying plans to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants known as “dreamers”…
With the Supreme Court ordering all of the federal courts to the sidelines in the bitter and prolonged constitutional and…
The Supreme Court split several different ways on Thursday as it ruled on the Trump administration’s plan to ask everyone in the…
Ending a search of more than three decades for a formula to judge the constitutionality of partisan gerrymanders of Congress and…
Faced with the prospect that a lower court may issue a new ban on adding a citizenship question to the census, the Trump…
With the Supreme Court apparently ready to rule this week on a historic controversy over the 2020 census, a federal trial judge on…
Moving to keep in check the troubling new race bias issue that could affect the 2020 census, the Trump Administration asked the…
A widely-splintered Supreme Court, speaking through a variety of separate opinions, on Thursday agreed to allow governments at all…
Finding that “a substantial issue” has been raised in the claim that racial bias led the Trump Administration to plan to ask a…
It’s hard to imagine America without the Statue of Liberty, but the icon of freedom didn’t make its first full appearance in…
With time running out for the Supreme Court to rule on the Trump Administration’s plan to ask everyone in the nation about their…
It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…
A racial bias claim against the Trump administration about a citizenship question in the 2020 census may potentially complicate…
With the Supreme Court poised to act soon on the constitutionality of asking everyone in America next year about their…
Taking on a new case that could draw it back to the very origins of the Constitution, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide…
The Trump Administration is now urging the Supreme Court to act swiftly, to decide in the next few weeks on the next step in the…
On the occasion of President John F. Kennedy’s birthday, here’s a look at one of the most documented figures of the 20th century.
The Supreme Court released four opinions on Tuesday morning, including a decision on an abortion case, and took important actions…
Federal and state judges these days are finding a new assignment: reading up on what the Supreme Court once called “the infamous…
The pace of court review of President Trump’s resistance to handing over his financial records to Congress quickened on…
A nearly fatal beating on the U.S. senate floor on this day in 1856 was another step toward a Civil War five years later. The…
Ruling that Congress has wide-ranging power to investigate President Donald J. Trump’s finances even without opening an…
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston explains why the fight between House Democrats and the Trump administration over the…
The current dispute between Democrats in the House of Representatives and Attorney General William Barr could result in contempt…
On May 2, 1972, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover died of heart disease at a Washington hospital, ending his 48-year total control over…
At a private conference on Friday, the Supreme Court is scheduled for the seventh time since February to ponder the latest request…
On Tuesday, the nine Supreme Court Justices heard arguments for and against including a citizenship question in the 2020 census, a…
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to settle the meaning of a 1964 civil rights law that bans discrimination in the workplace…
Constitutional questions, some subtle and some obvious, some familiar and some unusual, very likely will shape how the Supreme…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest for hacking conspiracy charges last Wednesday has sparked renewed debate over where…
Contributor Lyle Denniston looks at how the core meaning of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment”…
April 15 is usually marked each year as the traditional deadline for filing taxes, so it’s not exactly celebrated as a holiday.…
On April 8, 1913, Connecticut became the 36th state to ratify the Constitution’s 17th Amendment. Learn about the only amendment…
April 7 is a day celebrated nationally by beer lovers as a big anniversary near the end of Prohibition in 1933, when legal beer…
The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment is in the news after two congressional members engaged in a spirited debate this week about…
For centuries, stories have persisted about Congress almost approving German as our official language, except for one vote by its…
On this day in 1867, United States Secretary of State William Seward signed a deal acquiring Alaska, an agreement that was…
A Justice Department legal filing late Monday night to support a federal court decision killing all of Obamacare has put that…
The campaign to end partisan gerrymandering of seats in Congress and state legislatures, an effort that began a half-century ago,…
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston looks at the current debate over the Electoral College and why history, as well as…
It was on this day in 1765 that the British Parliament signed the Stamp Act, a move that lit the fuse for a revolution in the…
Senator Marco Rubio plans to propose a new constitutional amendment to permanently limit the Supreme Court to nine Justices. While…
On Monday, the Supreme Court said it will hear arguments in four new cases after October 2019, including an appeal about the…
It was on this day in 1963 that the Supreme Court handed down the Gideon decision, which guaranteed the rights of the accused to…
It was on this day that the United States Senate began the first trial of a sitting United States President after the House…
The high-stakes fight now unfolding in the Supreme Court over the 2020 census, testing whether everyone in America should be asked…
President Donald Trump has threatened to veto any measure passed by Congress that blocks his national emergency declaration to…
On Monday morning, a crowd – no one knows for sure how big it will be – will gather at a church in Phoenix to start a…
In an act of “judicial jujitsu,” the Supreme Court issued its decision in Marbury v. Madison on February 24, 1803,…
The iconic Washington Monument is celebrating its birthday today. Learn how it took 40 years to complete the project, and the…
In a unanimous ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court overturned an Indiana Supreme Court decision that said that part of federal…
In nearly 28 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas has been its most unwavering “originalist.” That means that…
On February 20, 1792, President George Washington officially created the modern United States Postal Service by signing a sweeping…
A group of 16 states asked a federal court in California on Monday night to block the federal government from building a wall…
On this day in 1861, former U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis took to a podium for his presidential inaugural and gave an impassioned…
Convinced that it must act quickly to settle the issue, the Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of adding a…
On Friday morning, President Donald Trump said he would declare a national emergency to allocate more funds to expand walls or…
Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day and in a romantic tribute to couples everywhere, it’s time to turn back the pages to remember…
On February 13, 1689, Parliament in London allowed two new monarchs to take the throne if they honor the rights of English…
After filings at the Supreme Court on Monday in the census question case, it seems possible the Justices could hear arguments at a…
Moving with unusual speed, the Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for acting soon – probably on Friday – on the…
Over the dissents of four Justices, the Supreme Court on Thursday night temporarily barred the state of Louisiana from enforcing a…
One of the little-understood provisions of the 12th Amendment allows the U.S. Senate to name a Vice President under very limited…
For a brief period on Tuesday night, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be locked away during his State of the…
On February 1, 1865—the same day President Lincoln signed sent the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the states—John…
Saying the Supreme Court needs time to ponder the issue, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., on Friday evening delayed for six days a…
An attempt by the state of Maryland to get a federal judge to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act…
On January 27, 1975, Senator Frank Church led a new Senate committee formed to investigate allegations of U.S. government spying…
Arguing that the need is urgent for a rapid Supreme Court review of the legality of adding a citizenship question to the 2020…
This week, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said it could sustain its current operations until January 31 if the…
On this day in 1787, Shays’ rebellion effectively ended in Springfield, Mass., when its forces failed to capture a federal…
Today we celebrate the ratification of not one, but two constitutional amendments: the 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933)…
Alone among America’s federal courts, the one at the top of the hierarchy has very wide discretion on what it decides, and when.…
Giving the Trump Administration its second major victory in recent months for a highly controversial public policy, a deeply…
For the first time since it gave broad new constitutional protection to individuals’ gun rights more than a decade ago, the…
The Supreme Court has turned down a request from a former Washington state public high school football coach over his right to…
Last Friday, the Supreme Court made news by not taking action on the high-profile Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA)…
In a brief order Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court canceled a hearing that had been set for February 19 on the controversy over…
When can public funds be used to preserve historic buildings, if the structures also happen to be churches? A case from New Jersey…
Lawyers on both sides of the constitutional controversy over asking everyone in America, during next year’s census, about their…
On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urged President Donald Trump to delay his scheduled State of the Union speech to…
The Trump Administration has now lost – even if only temporarily – the authority to enforce anywhere in the nation a set of…
In a ruling almost certain to be swiftly challenged in the Supreme Court, a federal trial judge in New York City on Tuesday barred…
One day before the Trump Administration was to begin enforcing sweeping new limits on women’s access to free birth-control…
With statements from President Trump that a national emergency declaration could be an option to build a border wall, one of the…
With no Justice noting a dissent, the Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon reinstated a federal judge’s fine of $50,000 a day on…
President Donald Trump’s statement that he is considering using emergency presidential powers to build a border wall has…
Setting the stage for another attempt to decide the constitutionality of partisan-gerrymandered election districts, the Supreme…
The House of Representatives – now under Democratic control – has moved to enter a federal court case to provide a robust…
Can you handle the truth about the Founders and the Constitution? From the vault of our Constitution Daily blog, here are 10…
A federal judge in Texas decided on Sunday night to put on hold his ruling that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) is…
Today marks the birthday of perhaps the most-maligned president in American history. But was Andrew Johnson really that bad, or…
As 2018 winds now, it was another memorable year for the Supreme Court. Here’s a look at some of the major cases decided by…
Eight years ago, an inmate in California and his lawyer convinced a judge that the Seinfeld-inspired holiday Festivus was a…
A case shrouded in secrecy reached the Supreme Court on Saturday afternoon amid hints that it puts Special Counsel Robert…
All sides in the Texas courtroom battle over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) now agree that the…
Over the dissents of four Justices, the Supreme Court refused on Friday to allow the Trump Administration to put back into effect…
The secret meeting was brief at the White House, and it involved a U.S. President and a King, of sorts. And even today, it…
As another potential government shutdown looms later this week, people are making plans about how to deal with furloughs, park…
On December 18, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Katz v. United States, expanding the Fourth Amendment protection against…
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston explains what will happen next in the latest constitutional challenge to the…
Eight years after Congress wrote a massive overhaul of the nation’s health care industry, a federal trial judge in Texas has…
Federal government lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to get permission to enforce a new transgender military ban policy in some…
It is the season for controversy about public holiday displays, and this year’s stories include a fight over a cross in Missouri…
The Trump Administration rushed to the Supreme Court Tuesday, asking permission to put back into place new restrictions on…
A group of Maryland Republican voters, claiming that they were penalized for supporting their party’s candidates in the polling…
A divided Supreme Court on Monday turned down an attempt by two states to deny efforts to fund Planned Parenthood.
Today marks an important anniversary in American history: the congressional declaration of war on Japan on December 8, 1941. But…
One of the most controversial decisions in Supreme Court history was caused by aftershocks of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,…
A new Knight Foundation survey shows high school students compared with their teachers more strongly support certain First…
Arguing that a state should not have to re-draw its congressional districts twice in a short time span, Maryland officials asked…
On the news of the passing of George H.W. Bush, Constitution Daily is republishing our annual post about interesting facets of the…
According to a report from Politico, President Donald Trump intends to ask Congress to establish the Space Force as an independent…
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that a dispute over the dusky gopher frog needs to head back to a federal appeals court to…
The Trump Administration on Monday evening again urged the Supreme Court to halt all further proceedings in a case about a…
Can Apple be held accountable if consumers think products in its App store are too expensive because Apple has a monopoly on…
Attempting once again a highly unusual legal maneuver for getting prompt Supreme Court review of major controversial issues, the…
Almost two years after President Donald Trump began a continuing campaign of criticism of federal judges who rule against him,…
Seeming to suggest that higher courts have left no other choice, a federal trial judge in Eugene, Ore., ordered a months-long…
A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration policy to bar asylum seekers entry into the United States unless…
Trying again to stop a trial in a federal court in a constitutional dispute over the 2020 census, the Trump Administration has…
On this day in 1925, Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass. Kennedy was one of the seminal figures of the 1960s and led a…
There were five versions of the Gettysburg Address that were acknowledged by Abraham Lincoln in his lifetime. Here are those…
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide, on a speeded-up schedule, a dispute over the Trump Administration’s decision to…
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Friday allowing CNN reporter Jim Acosta to regain his White House press…
State officials in Maryland moved Thursday to take a new partisan gerrymandering case to the Supreme Court, and both sides in the…
On November 14, 1959, TV Guide published a brief essay about politics and television by Senator John F. Kennedy that contained…
The state of Maryland is asking a federal judge to rule that current acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker can’t…
On Tuesday, Congress starts its final or “lame duck” session to end the year, with several major issues to resolve before 2019…
It was on this day in 1775 that the Continental Congress officially created the Marines to lead the fight “on land and at sea”…
Quoting the Supreme Court’s landmark Marbury v. Madison decision, a three-judge Ninth Circuit has upheld a nationwide injunction…
As the dust settles on the 2018 midterm elections, one outcome that could last longer than the immediate vote is the election’s…
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked for the resignation of Jeff Sessions, effectively firing his own Attorney General, in a…
The Democratic Party will have a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since early 2011. How will that…
After a heavy turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, while the Republicans…
The Trump Administration has asked the Supreme Court to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program and to do so…
Today, Americans are heading to the polls for midterm elections, where the entire House and 35 Senate seats will be up for grabs.…
The Supreme Court late Friday afternoon sent the Trump Administration two quite clear signals that the government has been…
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a highly publicized case from Maryland about the possible demolition of a memorial cross…
President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants will be getting a good…
President Trump has started a new debate about what the Constitution’s “Citizenship Clause” means, but the final answer no…
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, voters across America will choose a new Congress to start serving in January 2019. Today’s process…
Arguing that one of President Trump’s Cabinet secretaries should not have to answer lawyers’ questions about citizenship in…
John Adams is one of the pivotal figures in American history, as a political philosopher, patriot, statesman, father – and the…
Without comment, the Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans about a new election map for…
The Trump Administration has switched its own legal position on applying civil rights law to protect transgender people, in a…
Escalating its rhetoric in a final plea to the Supreme Court to shut down an imminent trial on the federal government’s role in…
With praise from Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., as a “towering figure in the history of the United States and indeed the…
In recent days, President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy National Guard members to block a mass-immigration situation at…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., on Friday evening ordered at least a temporary halt in a children’s lawsuit seeking to hold…
A dispute about a dog that bit a cat is now at Iowa’s Supreme Court and it addresses an important question about how…
Today marks the anniversary of the American victory at Yorktown, which effectively ended the Revolutionary War. But did you know…
The Trump Administration, out of patience with lower courts’ handling of a sweeping, three-year-old lawsuit demanding that the…
Lawyers for the Trump Administration plan to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt a trial set to begin in two weeks of a…
A federal trial judge in Oregon said on Monday that a group of teenagers is entitled to a court test of their claim about a…
The Supreme Court will settle a dispute over a video that aired on a New York City public access television channel that could…
A new college-level course, on “The Supreme Court and American Politics,” went online this month with scores of students from…
Dwight Eisenhower was a rarity in American politics when he won the presidency in 1952 in his first campaign as a politician. So…
It’s rare for the Supreme Court to take new cases about the 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition. But sometime next year, the…
On this day in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders Dr. Vannevar Bush to move forward with a top-secret project that led…
The Supreme Court announced on Saturday afternoon that the new Justice, Brett M. Kavanaugh, would promptly take two oaths, so that…
On Saturday afternoon, the Senate voted to confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh as the 114th Justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Today the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 51-49. Although the vote margin…
In a matter of hours, a 53-year-old federal judge with a fully developed conservative view of law and the Constitution will become…
Reopening a deeply divisive controversy that has troubled the Supreme Court for 32 years, four state legislators from North…
Two different appeals at the Supreme Court are asking the Justices to reconsider rulings that bar the display of large crosses on…
On Monday, the Supreme Court started its new term hearing arguments about a subject never really discussed on the bench before:…
On Monday, the Supreme Court released a long list of cases it won’t hear for arguments during its new term, and three cases we…
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston, who has written about the Supreme Court since 1958, looks at the current…
This week, an obscure act of Congress is getting a lot of attention in the discussion over Rod Rosenstein’s future in…
On Monday, the eight Justices currently on the Supreme Court will consider a long list of appeals for its next term, including…
The Supreme Court will get another chance in its next term to decide the long-unresolved question of whether partisan…
In this excerpt from The Atlantic’s October 2018 print edition, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen…
On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to end its public hearings about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the…
Is there a situation where some rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights don’t apply at a state level? A new case at the Supreme…
West Virginia’s Supreme Court impeachment proceedings could be seen as a move to check a corrupt court or an attack on a state…
Finding that Texas and other states waited too long to challenge a program to spare hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented…
How different would America have been without a hurricane that hit St. Croix in late August 1772? Without it, Alexander Hamilton…
A battle is brewing in federal court over a new Missouri law that bans associating plant-based foods such as Tofurky with meat or…
A part of the Constitution – the only part that deals with discrimination based on age – has existed for 47 years, but has…
An important case due to reach the Supreme Court soon seeks to test the legality of collecting a massive database of recorded TV…
A federal judge in Seattle has issued a preliminary national injunction blocking a website from offering 3-D-printer gun…
Today marks the anniversary of the 1916 Organic Act that created the National Park Service. So how much has the Park Service grown…
The Trump administration’s proposal to create a sixth military service branch to focus on space warfare is raising an…
Coming up in October, the Supreme Court starts a new term and hears new cases. Here’s a quick look at three cases the Justices…
Next Tuesday, a federal judge based in Washington state will hear arguments about the efforts of 19 states to block a website from…
A Ninth Circuit appeals court ruling may bring a question back to the Supreme Court about the ability to sue border agents at the…
A federal judge’s ruling earlier this week raises an interesting First Amendment question about the anonymous use of a digital…
In this commentary, Jeffrey Shulman from Georgetown Law looks at a recent federal court decision about a constitutional right to…
Among the legal challenges faced by the Trump administration is one centered on obscure parts of the Constitution, two sections…
With no noted dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down — for now — the Trump Administration’s request to delay or…
Tuesday, by his choice, is the last day of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s 30-year career on the Supreme Court. If retirement…
On July 26, 1775, the Continental Congress created the first version of the Post Office, naming Benjamin Franklin as the first…
Lyle Denniston looks at a case about environmental rights filed by teenagers that could lead to one of Justice Anthony M.…
On July 21, 1925, the famous Scopes Monkey trial over teaching evolution in public schools concluded. Mostly remembered today was…
Jeffrey Rosen leads a discussion about the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch’s first year on the Supreme Court, and…
For a brief moment in 1795, George Washington’s attorney general floated an idea that didn’t have a chance of success but…
David N. Schleicher and Todd J. Zywicki look at how the Seventeenth Amendment removed from state legislatures the power to…
Leading Civil War and Reconstruction scholars discuss the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment in celebration of its 150th…
On July 12, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr faced the prospect of murder charges after shooting Alexander Hamilton. Why didn’t…
Though he served for only one term, the scion of John and Abigail Adams left an indelible mark on American history.
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston takes a comprehensive look at the key cases that could be considered in a different…
On Monday night, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to join the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Justice…
President Donald Trump will announce his Supreme Court nominee tonight at 9 p.m. EDT. Here is a brief look at the four candidates…
Although forgotten by most Americans, John Bingham is one of the most important figures in American constitutional history.…
A federal judge in Texas has given the Trump Administration a chance to apply its victory last week in the Supreme Court against…
Next Monday night, President Donald Trump will announce his nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy as the Supreme Court’s ninth…
After Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced he was retiring from the Supreme Court, the politicians, the pundits and news reporters…
Anthony Kennedy’s career on the Supreme Court bench was marked by several important decisions as the court’s swing vote. But…
Ending an era, and almost certainly guaranteeing strong conservative control of the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 81,…
On Wednesday afternoon, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. So what happens next in the…
Thirty years ago, a unanimous Senate approved Anthony Kennedy’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The federal judge wasn’t…
The Supreme Court ended its latest term in mid-morning Wednesday after having set for itself and lower courts a daunting…
A divided Supreme Court said on Wednesday that public-sector employees who don’t belong to unions can’t be forced to pay union…
The political and human rights controversy over the Trump Administration policy of family separation as a form of immigration…
In today’s Supreme Court divided decision on the Trump administration’s travel ban, two Justices went where the bench seldom…
In a sweeping endorsement of presidential power over who may enter the United States and a huge political victory for President…
A divided Supreme Court said on Monday that a lower federal court erred when it tried to prevent election maps from going into…
Choosing – for now – to go to the sidelines on two highly controversial constitutional issues, the Supreme Court on Monday…
Voicing computer-age worry about Americans’ privacy when they use their telephones, a sharply split Supreme Court ruled on…
On Friday morning, the Supreme Court decided against a Virginia man’s claim that he faced double jeopardy because he faced…
Here is an update on significant decisions that were expected to be handed down from the Supreme Court into late June.
A divided Supreme Court said on Thursday that SEC administrative law judges appointed by staffers should be appointed by the…
In a huge constitutional favor for cash-short state governments’ treasuries and for struggling brick-and-mortar retail stores, a…
The Supreme Court is getting ready to release its remaining major decisions by late June. Here is a quick look at four big cases…
The Supreme Court, showing once again its reluctance to take a bold step to put some limits on the decades-long practice of…
Last week, a divided Supreme Court said a Minnesota law barring political clothing within polling places is unconstitutional, but…
On Tuesday, California’s secretary of state announced that enough petition signatures were certified to place an initiative on…
A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the state of Ohio’s voter-registration list maintenance policies to remain in place,…
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court let a federal appeals decision stand about tribal fishing rights in Washington state, when a…
The Trump Administration has now laid out a new plan about ending a six-year-old program protecting young undocumented immigrants…
For the first time, the Trump Administration moved on Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of the key section of the…
The Supreme Court will soon show how eager – or how hesitant – it is to move ahead in defining the government’s power to…
Does the First Amendment protect messages on clothing people wear when casting their votes at polling places? That’s a…
The Justice Department, as expected, will appeal a federal district court ruling about President Donald Trump’s Twitter habits.
Overtaken by changing developments in lower courts, the Supreme Court acted narrowly on Monday to end one of the challenges to the…
Three years after finding a constitutional right for gay and lesbian couples to get married, the Supreme Court chose on Monday to…
A divided Supreme Court said on Monday that a Colorado baker and cake artist was wrongly censored by the state of Colorado for…
Last July, we looked at the debate over presidential self-pardons as part of a review of overall executive pardon powers under the…
If a federal judge wants Donald Trump to stop blocking users on his Twitter account, does the President need to comply? Or is the…
This week, the state of Illinois voted to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution 36 years after its…
On May 31, 1913, the 17th Amendment went into effect, changing how Senators are elected. In this essay from our Interactive…
Back on this day in 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect, ending indirect elections to the U.S. Senate.…
In an 8-1 decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court said police in Virginia couldn’t use a Facebook photo as cause to examine a…
On May 12, 1977, the Supreme Court set a precedent about union dues and public-worker unions that could be overturned in the next…
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court said on Monday that employees who agreed to individual arbitration in employer disputes…
How will the Supreme Court’s recent decision about sports betting influence conflicts between federal and state laws? One area…
A new lawsuit in defense of women’s right to an abortion landed in a state trial court in Iowa this week, and everyone involved…
On Saturday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will exchange wedding vows at Windsor Castle. So what happens to the American…
Continuing its pattern of refusing to clarify the gun rights that are protected by the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court has…
A unanimous Supreme Court said on Monday that Pennsylvania state troopers violated the Fourth Amendment during a traffic stop…
In a broad reaffirmation of the constitutional idea that Congress cannot order state governments to carry out federal policies,…
On Monday, a divided Supreme Court said a court in a Louisiana murder case couldn’t accept a lawyer’s admission of his own…
The Supreme Court started the process of releasing significant decisions from its current term on Monday, with a much-anticipated…
Harry Truman went from being a county judge to deciding to use atomic warfare at World War II’s end. Here’s a quick look at 10…
On National Teacher Day, Constitution Daily looks at 10 Presidents who were teachers in some capacity before they occupied the…
The idea of a possible presidential subpoena is in the news again, bringing back a question that’s been debated for months. To…
Returning to the same courthouse where a Texas-led coalition won a sweeping victory against a key immigration policy of the Obama…
It was on this day in 1789 that George Washington placed his hand on a bible in New York and became the first President of the…
In a period of about 20 weeks, a total of 430 travelers have been allowed to enter the U.S. from the Muslim nations on the…
Not since President Harry Truman 66 years ago was denied the power to seize control of an industry vital to waging war has the…
In conjunction with his new book on William Howard Taft, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen examines how…
The last scheduled week of arguments in the Supreme Court’s current term features the high-profile Trump travel-ban case and yet…
In conjunction with his new book on William Howard Taft, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen examines how…
Sometimes, the Supreme Court’s ultimate power to define what the Constitution means seems just too daunting for the Justices.…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ended a potentially major data privacy case after both sides agreed that a new law from Congress made…
For the first time in any court, a federal judge in Seattle has ruled that transgender people are entitled to the fullest…
Jonathan Rieder from Barnard College looks at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and how its…
The recent raid on the office of Michael Cohen, one of President Trump’s personal lawyers, has raised a number of questions on…
The Supreme Court and a federal appeals court are now moving simultaneously to sort out a major constitutional controversy over a…
Paul Ryan’s House retirement means that a new person will be Speaker of the House of Representatives next January and become one…
When the full Supreme Court resumes arguments in mid-April, the Court will be short by one Justice when it considers a…
It’s the 105th anniversary of the 17th Amendment, leading us to consider what today’s U.S. Senate would look like if its…
The surging popularity of social media is testing one of the most basic constitutional rights: the public’s ability to criticize…
On April 5, 1841, the news that President William Henry Harrison was dead shocked a nation. So what killed a man who had just…
For more than three decades, some members of the Supreme Court have thought the courts should do something to rein in the…
One of the most-significant cases of the Supreme Court’s current term is on shaky ground after a new law may have settled the…
A deliberate effort by Maryland’s Democratic leaders to take a congressional seat away from Republicans might be just the kind…
A current public debate started by a retired Supreme Court Justice has people talking about possibly repealing one of the…
Some of the most significant Supreme Court cases in history were controversies that were started by, or on behalf, of public…
The state of California will sue the Trump administration over the upcoming 2020 census and its inclusion of a question about U.S.…
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear its second gerrymandering or political redistricting case of its current term. This…
Answering a constitutional question that the Supreme Court left open nearly 21 years ago in a case against President Bill Clinton,…
In the space of about three hours on Monday, the intense, months-long battle over partisan gerrymandering in Pennsylvania…
In the wake of last week’s National Walkout Day, students involved in sanctioned and unsanctioned demonstrations are voicing…
In a unanimous ruling Monday afternoon, a three-judge federal court in Harrisburg, PA, threw out a challenge by Pennsylvania…
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Organized protests this week at public secondary and high schools related to the Parkland shooting have raised several…
This week marks the anniversary of an important early event in our Republic’s history: a potential military uprising defused by…
Timothy Meyer and Steve Charnovitz join National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the history of…
As the Supreme Court considers a stay request in one case, a federal trial court in Harrisburg, PA, is pondering a complex…
The high-profile constitutional fight in Pennsylvania over voting for Congress this year will remain in limbo at least for the…
One of the most closely watched Supreme Court cases in April could affect the shopping habits of millions of Americans, as the…
When can someone be arrested at a public government meeting during a public comment forum? That’s a tricky question the…
Two prominent leaders in Republican politics have urged the Supreme Court to consider the Pennsylvania redistricting case as a…
A group of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania told a federal court on Friday that, if it barred the use of a congressional election…
Pennsylvania’s two top elected Republican officials have asked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in his role as a Circuit…
In a second significant setback this week for the Trump Administration on its immigration policy, a federal judge in Los Angeles…
A divided Supreme Court said on Tuesday that for now immigrants detained by U.S. customs officials don’t have a right to…
Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch said nothing during Monday’s Supreme Court arguments in a potential landmark case that could…
The Supreme Court refused on Monday to adopt a special, fast procedure to rule on the government’s power to shut down the…
At least three elected officials in Pennsylvania have mentioned the topic of impeaching and removing five state supreme court…
A three-judge federal court in Harrisburg, PA, has refused – for now – to block Pennsylvania officials from going forward with…
Ten elected Republican legislators, state and federal, in Pennsylvania asked a federal court on Thursday to issue an immediate…
If some folks had their way, a three-person tribunal, and not the President, would provide leadership of the “United States of…
Arguing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unconstitutionally seized the power to draw new congressional districts away from the…
Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston explains how Republican leaders in Pennsylvania’s legislature will shortly…
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On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a dispute about a defendant’s claim to double jeopardy if they have…
Claiming full authority to do so, a deeply divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court drew up and released on Monday its own new map of…
In this essay from the National Constitution Center’s Interactive Constitution project, scholars Nelson Lund and Adam Winkler…
On Friday evening, the Supreme Court closed up shop for the holiday weekend without doing anything about DACA – that is, the…
Using President Trump’s own words against him, a federal appeals court on Thursday added a second legal defeat for the White…
Late next month, Congress will get a proposed list of 2020 Census questions that could set off another lawsuit about voting rights…
On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a new law that would admit women as members of the Supreme Court bar…
Just days before the Supreme Court is to consider getting involved in the deepening controversy over the legal fate of nearly…
Pennsylvania Governor Thomas W. Wolf told the state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday that a new Republican-drawn map of election…
As special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly negotiates with Donald Trump’s lawyers for an interview the President, legal…
Continuing to work through a series of disputes on “partisan gerrymandering,” the Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to add a…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling striking down a state legislature’s district-defining map for this year’s…
Today we celebrate a constitutional ratification twofer: the 15th Amendment (ratified February 3, 1870) and the 16th Amendment…
An appeal to the United States Supreme Court from Pennsylvania lawmakers about a state court gerrymandering decision might create…
Do local governments have the ability to remove monuments in public spaces that commemorate the Confederacy, its military or its…
The Supreme Court is now on a break from hearing arguments until mid-February. But the last three days of February are shaping up…
He was a war hero who led America out of a recession, won a war and re-election, defined modern election campaigns, and died at an…
With the controversy over young undocumented immigrants unfolding both in Congress and the federal courts, the Supreme Court…
In a ruling that potentially could be a political boon to Democrats running for Congress this year in Pennsylvania, a sharply…
Without comment, the Supreme Court decided on Monday to hear one of two cases in a dispute over land in Louisiana dedicated to…
A unanimous Supreme Court said on Monday that police officers who busted partiers at a vacant District of Columbia house in 2008…
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday afternoon to consider the state of Hawaii’s claim that President Trump imposed an…
One of the biggest questions during a federal government shutdown is, “who gets paid?” Due to the Constitution, the people…
With time running out for the Supreme Court to take on new cases in the current term, the Trump Administration asked Thursday…
Over two Justices’ dissents, the Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court order that would have required…
On Friday morning, the Supreme Court will consider in private conference the case of unwanted government protection for prodigal…
Unless Congress passes a temporary funding bill by late Friday night, many federal government services will stop over the weekend.…
The Trump Administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule on the constitutionality of the President’s third version of…
The Trump Administration will ask the Supreme Court this week to uphold its power to end the “DACA” program that protects…
In Supreme Court arguments on Wednesday, the nine Justices will tackle a Sixth Amendment question about the proper role of…
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. saw himself as a servant of humanity and wanted his life to be remembered as a life of service to…
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his last public speech, which referenced the Bible and the Constitution. His…
The popular TV show “The Simpsons” debuted 28 years ago today as a regular series, and among its cultural contributions are…
The Supreme Court will now reconsider a half-century-old constitutional bar to state taxes on out-of-state retailers - a group…
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a dispute in Ohio about who can stay on an official list of registered votes. And from the…
A federal court ruling on Tuesday adds a new wrinkle to the national debate about the practice of gerrymandering voting districts…
Late Tuesday night, a federal judge in California temporarily stopped actions by the Trump administration to end parts of DACA, or…
Moving with unusual speed, the Supreme Court indicated on Monday that it will take its first look just 11 days from now at the…
Returning to the Supreme Court with a new appeal on immigration, the Trump Administration on Friday asked the Justices for…
The Justice Department rescinded an Obama-era memo on Thursday that deprioritized federal marijuana prosecutions in states that…
What is the difference between a parody and a satire? Two recent court cases involving the estate of Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss…
The Supreme Court enters 2018 with several fresh cases, and a key postponed case, in front of the nine Justices next week, with a…
Forgoing, for now, a request to the Supreme Court to bar transgender individuals from enlisting in the military, the Trump…
President Trump’s power was at its weakest point, constitutionally, when he imposed the latest version of a ban on immigration…
A federal judge, the first in history to rule on the meaning of the Constitution’s ban on gifts and other compensation for the…
The Supreme Court had a momentous year in 2017 as it added a new Justice and ruled on several significant cases. Here’s a quick…
The Supreme Court plans to take up at its first private conference in the new year the intense, ongoing fight over an unsettled…
In a rare and perhaps unprecedented ruling, the Supreme Court on Wednesday took control of a federal trial court’s management of…
The Trump Administration, in simultaneous filings on Monday, asked both the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court to block an…
Early this week, the House and Senate will likely vote on a huge overhaul to the tax system. So what is the obscure rule that will…
Finding that the Trump Administration had no legal authority to create sweeping exemptions to the birth-control mandate under the…
A group of 13 states wants the Supreme Court to directly take its complaints about new California egg laws that have blocked the…
Still insisting that the Pentagon will not be ready to accept transgender recruits into the military on January 1, the Trump…
In three weeks, transgender individuals seeking to enlist in U.S. military forces may start joining up. The Pentagon made that…
December 12 is a big anniversary for those of us in Pennsylvania: It’s the day the James Wilson led an emotional effort to…
The Supreme Court on Monday acted – probably because of procedural reasons – to leave undecided at least for now the spreading…
For millions of Americans, December brings celebrations of religious and secular holidays. But the uniqueness of the season also…
Siding with the Trump Administration and splitting 5-to-4, the Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal trial judge…
In a surprise move, the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon expanded its review of challenges to the decades-old practice of drawing…
In a move that could tip the balance in the Supreme Court against labor unions representing public employees, the Trump…
One of the bigger cases of the current Supreme Court term pits federal control over legalized sports betting versus state’s…
Over the years, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has become the Supreme Court’s most energetic defender of gay rights, one of its true…
On Martin Van Buren’s birthday, Constitution Daily looks at the man who helped to create our modern two-party political system,…
For at least the next several weeks, the Trump Administration may enforce in full all of its tough new restrictions on entry into…
On Monday, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney made a pointed argument in a media interview that a President can’t be…
A civil rights group told the Supreme Court on Monday about President Trump’s online relay of anti-Muslim videos circulated by…
Amid a sharp dispute about its power to rule on a new case on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court refused on Monday to clarify…
A dispute over power sharing between the federal government and state government leads off a big week of Supreme Court cases on…
In this piece from The Atlantic, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen explains how the Supreme Court might…
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court changed its mind about what the Fourth Amendment protects, switching its focus from physical…
A conflict between President Trump and the nation’s top consumer watchdog has triggered a minor constitutional crisis over who…
With the nation reaching record levels of mass shootings, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the state of Maryland to continue to…
Without comment, the United States Supreme Court denied an appeal from the Westboro Baptist Church on Monday about a Nebraska law…
On November 25, 1841, 35 former slaves returned home to West Africa, after a Supreme Court decision, won by former United States…
Criticizing President Trump for making a major policy shift by a tweet, a federal trial judge in Maryland became the second one in…
A federal judge in California has issued a permanent national injunction against a Trump administration executive order against…
The Trump Administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday night in the latest round in the long-running court fight over…
The Trump Administration put off on Monday a move to draw the Supreme Court into the ongoing legal controversy over potential…
It’s rare for one person to get a victory at the Supreme Court, but a South Florida man will try for a second win this spring in…
In a 128-page ruling, a federal judge said on Wednesday that the Justice Department can’t withhold grant funding from…
On November 15, 1919, a procedure introduced by Woodrow Wilson to the Senate, the cloture rule, backfired on the President as it…
On Monday, the Supreme Court accepted an appeal about the ability of a voter to wear clothing or campaign buttons at a polling…
Taking on a deeply controversial question about the rights of abortion foes when they set up counseling and treatment centers for…
On Veterans Day, Constitution Daily looks at 10 Presidents who had first-hand experience serving in the military before they were…
On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court said it would expedite hearings in a potentially major gerrymandering case with…
On this day 28 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet project, as on November 9, 1989…
The Supreme Court Justices are working their way through potential drafts for a ruling on a major Wisconsin case testing the…
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On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States in a bitter contest against the incumbent Vice…
Without comment, the United States Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal from the programmer who wrote the original John…
The Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to restore officials’ power to block any abortion for pregnant…
In the legacy of presidential history, Harry Truman may be best remembered by one photograph. So how did the 33rd president wind…
A Marine Corps general, being held prisoner in his own apartment at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay after being convicted of…
In early December, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a significant case that “takes the cake” literally, as the issues…
The war crimes tribunal system at Guantanamo Bay, often troubled throughout its years in operation, became embroiled Wednesday in…
Ruling that transgender people probably have a constitutional right to be treated equally by the government, a federal judge in…
On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to ban…
In late November, the Supreme Court will tackle a very modern question about the venerable Fourth Amendment: Does it allow police…
Tentatively accepting the Trump Administration’s view that Congress has not put up any money to cover federal subsidies for…
In early November, the Supreme Court will take up a potentially significant case about the ability of states to remove voters from…
In dueling documents filed in a federal court in San Francisco, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. House of…
Beginning its defense in a federal appeals court of the third version of President Trump’s attempt to block entry of foreign…
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