#Constitutional Law

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Democrats strategize removing Trump from office to stop Iran war — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  House Republicans on Thursday blocked Democrats from introducing a resolution to stop the Iran war, but party liberals are planning a more decisive way to end the conflict: removing President Trump fr...

  Related: #U.S. Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Democratic lawmakers seek to limit Trump's powers on Iran — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Democratic lawmakers are taking action to curb President Trump's powers over Iran, but a favorable outcome seems unlikely. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.

  Related: #U.S. Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Democrats grow bolder on talk about removing Trump from office after his Iran threats — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  While President Donald Trump eventually pulled back on his threat and agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, Democrats face growing demands to oppose the Republican president in the strongest possi...

  Related: #U.S. Domestic Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Republicans block effort to halt Trump's war with Iran after 'civilization' threat — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  WASHINGTON — House Democrats unsuccessfully attempted to pass a resolution to halt Donald Trump’s war with Iran on Thursday — a response to the president’s shocking threat two days earlier to annihila...

  Related: #U.S. Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Senate to vote again next week on limiting Trump's military options in Iran — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The Senate will try again next week to pass a war powers resolution that would force President Trump to seek congressional approval for further military action in Iran, Senate Minority Leader Charles ...

  Related: #U.S. Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump makes case for Iran war. And, SCOTUS leans toward upholding birthright citizenship — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  President Trump addressed the nation last night, making his case for war with Iran. And, the Supreme Court majority seemed inclined to rule against the Trump administration on birthright citizenship.

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order banning birthright citizenship. Justices seemed skeptical ...

  Related: #Immigration Policy
• 🇺🇸 Key Justices Appear Skeptical of Limiting Birthright Citizenship — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  Also, NASA prepares to launch the first crewed moon mission in 50 years. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

  Related: #Space Exploration, #National Security
• 🇺🇸 The Birthright Con — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.

  Related: #Immigration Policy, #Judicial Power
• 🇺🇸 Trump to address nation on Iran war. And, SCOTUS considers birthright citizenship — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  Trump is set to address the nation after saying the U.S. will withdraw from Iran in 2-3 weeks. And, the president will be at the Supreme Court today as arguments on birthright citizenship begin.

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court considers a historic case about who is — and isn't — born a citizen — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  At issue is President Trump's challenge to a constitutional provision that has long been interpreted to guarantee American citizenship to every child born in the United States.

  Related: #Citizenship
• 🇺🇸 Trump plans to attend Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  President Donald Trump plans to sit in on Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation's highest...

  Related: #Presidential Action
• 🇺🇸 Canada’s Supreme Court Hears Case on Ability to Suspend Constitutional Rights — 25/03/2026 [USA]

  Quebec’s ban on religious symbols — and a measure that suspends constitutional rights — are being tested in a case with far-reaching repercussions.

  Related: #Religious Freedom, #National Unity
• 🇺🇸 DOD says it will appeal judge's ruling that said Pentagon's press restrictions are unconstitutional — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Defense Department officials on Friday said they will appeal a federal judge's ruling that labeled the Pentagon's restriction on press access as unconstitutional.

  Related: #Military Press Access
• 🇺🇸 Trump hasn’t ruled out a draft for war with Iran — but is conscription constitutional? — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The most effective way to limit foreign adventures is to rely on a volunteer military — one whose size the public can ultimately constrain by refusing to enlist.

  Related: #Military Policy
• 🇺🇸 'Dramatic departure': Republicans challenge birthright citizenship for babies of illegal immigrants — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Senate Republicans sought to add heft Tuesday to President Trump's argument that the Constitution doesn't -- and shouldn't -- require birthright citizenship, saying the great grant of American status ...

  Related: #Immigration Policy
• 🇺🇸 House Speaker Mike Johnson says Shariah law in the U.S. is contrary to Constitution — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  House Speaker Mike Johnson said Shariah law in the U.S. is a "serious issue," but that he spoke to two Republican lawmakers about their comments that have been slammed as Islamophobic.

  Related: #Political Commentary
• 🇺🇸 House Speaker Mike Johnson says Sharia law in the U.S. is contrary to Constitution — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sharia law in the U.S. is a "serious issue," but that he spoke to two Republican lawmakers about their comments that have been slammed as Islamophobic.

  Related: #Religious Law
• 🇺🇸 The 22nd Amendment isn’t optional: No, Trump doesn't get a third term — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  The 22nd Amendment is clear, and its framers knew the kind of arguments that might be made in the future in order to subvert it.

  Related: #Presidential Elections
• 🇺🇸 How expansive is the Constitution's 'speech or debate' clause? — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) appealed to the First Amendment to block the "censure" levied against him by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon agreed, freezing th...

  Related: #Legislative Immunity
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court wrestles with gun rights, marijuana, and the right to own a gun — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  The argument took place in light of the court's 2022 Bruen decision, which held that for a gun law to be constitutional, it must be analogous to a similar law at the nation's founding in the...

  Related: #Second Amendment, #Federalism
• 🇺🇸 Founding-era drunkards dominate at Supreme Court gun argument — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court justices tripped through the world of controlled substances and alcohol on Monday as they scrutinized whether the government can constitutionally bar unlawful drug users from possess...

  Related: #Second Amendment, #Drug Policy
• 🇺🇸 Political questions: Not every issue can be resolved in federal court — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  Political question doctrine is best understood as one of jurisdiction and judicial restraint.

  Related: #Judicial Review, #Separation of Powers, #Federalism, #Political Science
• 🇺🇸 War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  The Constitution isn’t a technicality.

  Related: #War Powers, #Government Oversight
• 🇺🇸 Judge extends order protecting refugees in Minnesota from being arrested and deported — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge on Friday extended an order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported, saying a Trump administration policy turns the "American Dre...

  Related: #Immigration Policy, #Refugee Rights, #Due Process, #American Dream
• 🇺🇸 Is This the Most Important Supreme Court Case of the Century? — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  The tariff ruling may have just helped save the Republic.

  Related: #Presidential Powers, #Checks and Balances
• 🇺🇸 Bill of Rights put to the test over Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  In and out of court, more than half of the amendments in the Bill of Rights are being fought over as a result of Trump’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.

  Related: #Immigration Policy, #Executive Power, #Civil Rights
• 🇺🇸 Ghislaine Maxwell fights release of more Epstein documents, calling disclosure law unconstitutional — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, saying a law used to force the...

  Related: #Legal Battle, #Epstein Case
• 🇺🇸 Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring public schools display Ten Commandments — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect.

  Related: #Religious Freedom, #Education Policy, #Church-State Separation
• 🇺🇸 Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt on Trump tariffs, clash with White House over National Guard and more — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  President Trump met with U.S. governors at the White House on Monday as the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs. Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt joins "The Takeout" to discuss the rul...

  Related: #Trade Policy, #Federal-State Relations, #Executive Authority