Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

Could the Clerk of the House lead a midterm coup? Garrett Epps looks to 1863 and 1865 for warnings about our current crisis.

Trump has floated ways to disrupt the 2026 midterms, from mail voting crackdowns to ICE at the polls. Here’s why voters still have power.

Roberts Slays Trump’s Ludicrous Birthright Citizenship Order. While Thomas tries to justify caste, Jackson makes it clear the post-Civil War Amendments were “not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

The law professor argues that the president isn’t prevented from serving a third term. This former Dershowitz admirer begs to differ.

Trump’s bid to strip birthright citizenship from millions is a moral, administrative, and legal catastrophe.

Newport, on the quirky, impossibly beautiful Oregon coast finds itself a battleground in Trump's war on immigrants.

Trump can’t legally force “sanctuary” cities to help ICE. So he flooded Minneapolis with federal agents. Here’s what comes next.

Neglect and disdain of rural voters have driven them from the Democratic party, argue authors Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown.

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig explains a promising new strategy to stop the surge of Super PACs and dark money in politics.

Donald Trump has stretched the pardon power beyond any precedent, turning a constitutional safeguard into a tool of personal abuse.

We bring you independent coverage of ICE raids, National Guard troops, and the battles to save the Constitution, but we need your help.

Former Ambassador to Canada says tariffs, threats, and rhetoric have pushed U.S.–Canada relations to their lowest point in modern history.

The Supreme Court’s Callais case could gut the Voting Rights Act and let states mask racial gerrymandering as partisan politics.

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

Donald Trump, the wartime president, has met the enemy, and it is us. His conquest of America has just begun.

An appeals court panel combines sloppy reasoning and undue deference to the executive by allowing Trump's takeover of Portland to proceed.

The Trump administration’s pending sale of a historic federal building in D.C. could spell the end for the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art.”

A report on the Justice Department’s Orwellian arguments and how a Trump-nominated jurist is holding the line for democracy.

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh greenlit racial profiling. How the jurist sees an envision an ICE agent confronting a Hispanic Appearing Person.