The 300-year-old doctrine is being tested by the excesses of digital oligarchs, says historian Fara Dabhoiwala ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

President Trump’s lack of historical perspective has freed him to scratch every itch and act on every whim. Unencumbered by ...

The Supreme Court’s preferred method of interpreting the Constitution is originalism, which requires judges to abide by the original public meaning of the constitutional text. This is often more ...

In the heart of Seattle, a national park memorializes the grit of the Klondike gold rush, where the president’s grandfather ...

The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a ...

Competing rulings from federal court jurisdictions could tee up the Supreme Court to make its own ruling on whether young ...

The Roberts court has a lot to prove. The Constitution requires presidents to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Nevertheless, last year, the justices ruled that former presidents can’t ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...