Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a new constitutional convention to pass a gun safety amendment and California lawmakers backed his plan. Now, some Democrats fear the specter of a right-wing ...

Dar Leaf and Richard Mack don’t seem like they would pose a threat to US democracy. Leaf, a sheriff from Barry County, Michigan, always has at least two pens clipped neatly to his shirt pocket and ...

Opponents of Donald Trump’s whirlwind return to the presidency scream "constitutional crisis." They claim that the administration will defy the courts, then overthrow the constitutional structure and ...

People have been talking about the possibility of a “constitutional crisis” since before President Trump’s election. And in the wake of Trump’s executive order restricting the ability of people from ...

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Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Checks and Imbalances: While president Donald Trump defies constitutional norms through executive orders and agency purges, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated ...

This Constitution Day, which marks the 238 th anniversary of the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention, is also a dispiriting moment to dread how the nation will celebrate its ...

Alan is an experienced culture, commerce, and tech author with a background in newspaper reporting. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, The Escapist, ESPN, PC Gamer, and a ...

Shireen Morris is Director of the Radical Centre Reform Lab at Macquarie University Law School, which was established with generous support from Foundation Donors, Henry and Marcia Pinskier. Dr Morris ...

One morning last year, around 60 sheriffs and deputies gathered outside Houston for a training that proved to be less about enforcing laws than about subverting them. After a prayer from a pastor ...