Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior ...

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Korea University law professor, Cha Jin-ah, warns ruling party judicial reform bills could weaken judicial independence and ...

President Donald Trump's unprecedented misuse and abuse of a pardon power that dates back 250 years serves as a real-world scenario of what can happen when a system of checks-and-balances - like, say, ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Of course, this has nothing to do with drugs from Venezuela entering the U.S. If it did, Trump would not have pardoned former ...

Explore the U.S. bicameral legislature, its structure with the House of Representatives and Senate, and the historical ...

A group of Democratic state attorneys general dropped one of the last remaining legal fights over whether President Donald Trump unlawfully delegated too much power to Elon Musk during the months the ...

Yet at year’s end, there’s reason for hope. The laws of political gravity have not been repealed. Abuse has been met with ...

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Ninth Amendment—Unenumerated Rights Crushed by Government Power. The Ninth Amendment affirms that the people retain rights ...

Hamilton carried the day with his “strong, energetic presidency.” But he and all the other principal Founders agreed that the ...