The separation of powers that characterizes governments in the United States assumes that each branch will act to further its own interests,...

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2024, a majority of the justices overruled Chevro...

The sheer brazenness with which countries ironically recognized as being sovereign states by international law ignore international law even...

Ironically, in making the ruling on New Year’s Day of 2024 striking down Prime Minister Netanyahu’s amendment to the country’s basic law tha...

On December 19, 2023, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Don Trump, a former U.S. president, had engaged in insurrectionist activity as a m...

Observing a pattern of sustained ideological proclivities in the decisions of justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, The New York Times edito...

In his confidential memorandum, “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” Lewis Powell, later to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,...

A war was fought over it. In early 2013, the White House made it explicit in replying to a petition. Yet still there was a sense among at l...

Is ending the filibuster on appointments to executive-branch offices as well as judicial appointments below the U.S. Supreme Court really...

How “extreme” can a legislative supermajority get in its legislation? Can constitutional safeguards act as a check where a legislative sup...

For a federal system to be viable over the long term, a core of basic values must be shared even though one of the main functions of federa...

In May 2011, “Athens agreed to impose a new $9 billion round of tax increases and spending cuts and speed up nearly $75 billion in promised...

The SEC enforcement staff, including its chief, Robert Khuzami, decided to kick a gift horse in the mouth rather than to “take a lesson” an...

Harlan Crow was a Dallas real estate magnate and a major contributor to conservative causes. He did many favors for his friend, Clarence T...

With a state government rapidly moving on legislation that would end the independence of that state’s judiciary, the E.U. Commission announ...

Fundamentally, a court differs from a legislature, so it would be strange were a state’s supreme court to take it upon itself to act as the...

With a judge handing down a five-year suspended prison sentence, a fine of 500,000 rubles (about $8,400), and a ban on participating in the...

Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. Federal District Court in Brooklyn, New York, issued a nationwide injunction on January 28, 2017 concerning ...

With Chinese courts revising more than 1,300 criminal decisions in 2014, the chief justice of the Supreme People’s Court, Zhou Qiang, told ...

In sending a message to S & P as well as Wall Street more generally regarding the excesses in the securitization of subprime mortgage...