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A Democratic federal judge suggests that banning abortion violates the 13th Amendment’s prohibition on "involuntary servitude."

A federal judge indicated on Monday there could be an unseen constitutional right to abortion tucked away in the 13th Amendment, according to a court order that explored potentially unanswered questions about the Supreme Courts opinion last summer overturning Roe v. Wade.

When an agency is freed from certain checks and balances, Congress must take care not to delegate too much power.

The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Crawford v. Cain is a monument to judicial lawlessness.

After the excitement of the concluded Supreme Court term, the next few years promise their fair share of compelling cases, congressional action and lower court decisions can alter the playing field—there could well be some surprises on the horizon.

How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court

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One of the British tabloids has taken Meghan Markel to task because she wants to trademark “archetypes’ for use in conjunction with her Spotify podcast. The tabloid defiantly asserts archetypes is 470 years old. So? They write she should not be entitled to own this word. She is, however, entitled to grab a word from ...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will be the principal speaker for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 Commencement ceremony at Harvard on May 29.

Too many economists and political scientists think their neighboring disciplines are mathematics and statistics, not history and social psychology.