"If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch, as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned." — Justice George Sutherland (1862-1942) Here we go again. The legal battle over the constitutionality [...]

Last Sunday afternoon, U.S. Attorney General William Barr released a letter, which he said summarized the report he had received from special counsel Robert Mueller about alleged crimes committed by President Donald Trump. Barr wrote that the preside [...]

"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." — Richard M. Nixon (1913-94) Legal scholars have been fascinated for two centuries about whether an American president can break the law and remain immune from prosecuti [...]

"Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the fe [...]

In an ideal world, the president of the United States would succeed in negotiating a nuclear arms treaty with a foreign government — and do so with full congressional support; his lawyer would respect the attorney-client privilege and not revea [...]