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The omnibus spending bill promotes green energy, adds funds for IRS, sends taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, and includes thousands of earmarks.

Conservatives have rallied against the $1.5 trillion omnibus bill, believing it spends too much while Americans suffer from inflation.

Brackeen v. Haaland, No. 21-380: The Supreme Court granted review in this case (and three other consolidated cases), all of which involve the constitutionality of several provisions of...

The Torres decision will not only determine if protections are available to hundreds of thousands of veterans against employment discrimination but also could have broader ramifications for the war powers doctrine and/or the state sovereign immunity doctrine.

A House bill proposes a new mechanism for judicial review of war powers. Here’s how it works.

Congressional authority to request user data from communications service providers is in the spotlight once again thanks to recent requests made by the House's select committee on the Jan. 6...

The 14th Amendment offers a way out.

Editor’s note: This is part one of an 11-part series on the Constitution of the United States.While researching information for this article, I was t

A democratic-socialist who made two serious runs for president, an ardently conservative Utah senator, and a liberal Connecticut senator who has emerged as a foreign-policy wonk walk into a bar and — decide it’s time for the U.S. Constitution to be followed when it comes to matters of war and committing soldiers to combat. OK, that’s not much of a punchline and the proposal from this unlikely alliance of senators was probably not cooked up in a bar, but if it manages to gain bipartisan tr...

Part 3: Evidence from the Drafting of the Impeachment Clauses This is the third part of a four‐​part series on the 1876 impeachment trial of former Secretary of War William Belknap. In each part, I will examine a different category of argument made at that trial on the question whether the Senate has constitutional jurisdiction to try and convict a former officer. In Part 1, I summarized the arguments at the trial based on constitutional text. In Part 2, I turned to the arguments ba...