President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
A new proposal shows a politically viable step toward restoring congressional war powers. The post Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Politics Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government? A new proposal shows a politically viable step toward restoring congressional war powers. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images Is it politically possible for Congress to reassert its constitutional war powers? What would it take? Let’s quickly analyze why congressional war powers have become so degraded. The vast expansion of American international commitments following the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War necessarily tended to encourage delegation of war powers to…Open
By Susan Quinn The 9th Circuit, the most overturned by the Supreme Court in the nation, appears to do it again.
By John L. Smith FDR is to Obama as John Roberts is to Felix Frankfurter.
Chief Justice John Roberts built his reputation as an institutionalist while authoring some of the most radical expansions of executive power in modern U.S. history. Elie Mystal of The Nation puts it bluntly: “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House – it has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.” Mystal says Democrats must pursue Supreme Court expansion. “If you don’t control the Supreme Court, you control nothing.”
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The justices have been asked to weigh in again on the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail voting — this time on whether the plans violate the Constitution.
His remarks came during the White House press briefing, in response to a question on the failure of a constitutional amendment vote to fix the number of justices on the top court at nine.
House Democrats sank a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have permanently capped the Supreme Court at nine seats, a vote GOP leaders staged to force every lawmaker on the record weeks before the midterm elections. The measure failed 212-206 on Wednesday, far short of the two-thirds supermajority the House requires to advance a constitutional amendment. […] The post House Democrats vote down amendment to cap Supreme Court at nine justices appeared first on American Almanac .
House Democrats sank a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have permanently capped the Supreme Court at nine seats, a vote GOP leaders staged to force every lawmaker on the record weeks before the midterm elections. The measure failed 212-206 on Wednesday, far short of the two-thirds supermajority the House requires to advance a constitutional amendment. Every Democrat who voted opposed it. Speaker Mike Johnson had fast-tracked the resolution under a procedure known as "suspension of the rules," which limits debate but raises the passage threshold from a simple majority to two-thirds, a bar Republicans knew they could not clear without significant Democratic support. The result was never really in doubt. Republicans…Open