[Note: This is the seventh in a series of essays responding to objections that have been made to enforcing Section Three of the Constitution. The first six essays can be found here, here, here, here, ...
In a previous post, I argued that Donald Trump's plan to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for peacetime mass deportation is illegal, but also noted that courts might nonetheless refuse to ...
Recent Supreme Court decisions have renewed attention to the political question doctrine — the idea that some disputes are committed by the Constitution to the political branches and therefore are not ...
William Galston disputes my notion that “education is at heart a political question” (“Ron DeSantis’s Illiberal Education,” Politics & Ideas, Aug. 30). There are two ways in which education is ...
Maine’s top election official ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot, citing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The secretary of state said she made her ...