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Kansas Constitution doesn’t include right to vote: state high court majority

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ruled on multiple challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on some provisions while reviving challenges to others and signaling that at least one may be halted before this year’s general election. But the majority opinion on the ballot signature verification bill said the right to […]

Why Have a Constitution If You Just Ignore It?

In two recent columns, I wrote about the danger of public officials who are either unaware of the restrictions placed upon them by the Constitution they have sworn to uphold or, worse, just don’t give a damn. In the first, I chided President Biden for his sworn intent to pass a law that would “codify Roe […]

Don’t Give Up on the Constitution

I am enormously grateful to Law & Liberty for recruiting such heavy hitters to respond to my lead essay. What a joy to get such humbling and instructive comments, each brimming with its author’s characteristic intellectual virtues. I thank all four responders and only regret that the imperative for brevity in this summary reply means I […]

Authoritarian? Conservatives Want to Restore the Constitution. The Left Can’t Handle It.

The Constitution created three branches in the federal government: the legislature to make the laws, the executive branch to enforce the laws, and the judiciary to settle disputes about the laws. Yet the federal government we know and very much do not love doesn’t operate the way the Constitution says it should. Instead, unelected bureaucrats write more […]

Some Trump Supporters Care More About Tax Cuts than the Sanctity of the Constitution

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that some supporters of former President Donald Trump care more about tax cuts than the sanctity of the Constitution. When asked about President Trump’s rhetoric, Clinton said, “People can’t stop reporting on the circus, and every statement, every insult, every outrageous action or […]

Togo’s leader eliminates presidential elections by signing new constitution

Togo’s president has signed a new constitution that abolishes presidential elections and allows parliament to choose the president. President Faure Gnassingbé’s ruling party won a majority of seats in recent elections. The new constitution extends presidential terms to six years, but Gunasingbe’s nearly 20-year term does not count against the term limit. Togo’s president has […]

Trump vows to execute risky gambit to defend Constitution and more top headlines

The precedent set after the would-be 2024 Republican presidential nominee was once again charged with contempt of court, fined, threatened with jail time for future gag orders, and told to appear in a Manhattan courtroom. Former President Trump’s unprecedented criminal trial resumes Tuesday morning. At least for the next two weeks. (Song Haiyuan/MB Media/Getty Images) […]