Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another January 6 has come and gone, and with it the furtive remembrances of the day that touched off so much institutional ...

A prosecutor in President Lincoln’s assassination trial and three of Donald Trump’s judicial appointees may well determine the 2024 Presidential Election. U.S. Representative John Bingham (R-OH) ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

Michael Stokes Paulsen and I have a new draft article: The Sweep and Force of Section Three, that is forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth ...

The Fourteenth Amendment won’t save us from Donald Trump. Eminent jurists are promising that it will. They argue that language in the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, should debar ...

The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, adopted on July 28, 1868, is one of the most important and revolutionary amendments in American history. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed ...

Abstract: A clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, “The validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.” Far from authorizing the ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

Academicians, lawyers, elections officials, pundits and politicians are presently ensconced in the problem of Donald Trump’s continuing constitutional qualification for presidential office. Although ...

When proposing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress in 1866, Senator Jacob Howard referred to "the personal rights guaranteed and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as ...