For starters, a substantial percentage (40-50%) of Supreme Court decisions in any term are unanimous. But not all cases are ...

In Chief Justice John Roberts’s opening statement at his confirmation hearing, he explained that judges are like baseball umpires. “Umpires don’t make the rules,” he said. Their job is “to call balls ...

Florida lawmakers have voiced their concern over the possibility, and five were recently denied entry into the facility.

The Trump administration is giving us an advanced placement class in United States civics on the fly. We’re learning about ...

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” narrowly passed through the Senate Tuesday when Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking ...

Chief Justice John Roberts often laments that he has limited clout as he deals with his eight Supreme Court colleagues.

The 940-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” as it’s formally titled, has consumed Congress as its shared priority with the ...

The president’s most important job, as the sole steward of America’s nuclear arsenal, is to prevent nuclear war. And a ...

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act. Trump is not ...

Stuart Banner is the Norman Abrams distinguished professor of law at UCLA and author of “The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States.” The Supreme ...

In the early 1970s, China was supplying significant military, financial, and logistical assistance to North Vietnam in its war against the United States. China was helping North Vietnamese troops ...

United States, Nixon’s statement would not amount to obstruction of justice because it related to his ‘official’ duties—that is, supervising the FBI and CIA,” legal commentator Jeffrey ...