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The constitutional principle of separation of powers and its relation to presidential immunity and functioning.
Donald J. Trump was criminally convicted by a New York jury on May 30, 2024, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments tied to the 2016 election, making him the...
Multiple members of the 119th Congress have filed distinct articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump; those filings are separate resolutions that allege overlapping but not identical c...
A U.S. district judge, Sara L. Ellis, imposed sweeping restrictions on federal immigration agents’ use of tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd‑control measures in Chicago after finding evidence that...
A feasible bipartisan commission to evaluate presidential fitness would be a standing, congressionally authorized panel of medical experts and retired senior officials, appointed by congressional lead...
There are very few direct precedents for reducing a retired officer’s grade or pension as punishment for political speech after retirement; past uses of the retirement‑grade review process have typica...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 decision created a two-tiered immunity rule that grants former presidents absolute immunity for acts within their “exclusive” constitutional sphere and at least presum...
The question is settled: appellate courts and the have directly addressed claims tied to ’s cases—first in the D.C. federal courts and then definitively at the Supreme Court, which issued a landmark d...
The of and for refusing have strengthened one practical tool for enforcing congressional subpoenas by showing prosecutions can lead to guilty verdicts and prison sentences, while simultaneously sharpe...
Civil liberties groups have responded to NSPM-7 and accompanying executive steps against antifa with coordinated public denunciations, FOIA litigation seeking internal legal justifications, and warnin...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States set a three-tiered framework that leaves lower courts to apply fact-specific tests to decide whether a presidential action is “official” and therefore presu...
Congressional oversight reports and related committee statements have compiled a mosaic of allegations that the Trump administration exceeded executive authority, obstructed Congress, and violated con...
The Supreme Court held in Trump v. United States that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity from federal criminal prosecution for "official acts" taken while in office and absolute imm...
Federal courts have delivered a fractured record on Trump-era efforts to condition federal grants and press sanctuary jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration enforcement: multiple district and cir...
Congressional responses to presidential comments and actions framed as threats to constitutional norms since 2020 have ranged from formal resolutions and floor speeches condemning executive overreach ...
The Constitution contains no textual rule that bars the House from impeaching—or the Senate from trying—an official on the ground that the official is cognitively unfit; impeachment is a political rem...
Congress cannot straightforwardly "compel" the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke Section 4 of the Twenty‑Fifth Amendment, because the Amendment vests the initial decision in the vice president ...
The Department of Justice decides whether to investigate a Member of Congress through a blend of legal limits (constitutional privileges like the Speech or Debate Clause), internal policies that funne...