[Note: This is the seventh in a series of essays responding to objections that have been made to enforcing Section Three of the Constitution. The first six essays can be found here, here, here, here, ...

Recent Supreme Court decisions have renewed attention to the political question doctrine — the idea that some disputes are committed by the Constitution to the political branches and therefore are not ...

In a previous post, I argued that Donald Trump's plan to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for peacetime mass deportation is illegal, but also noted that courts might nonetheless refuse to ...

William Galston disputes my notion that “education is at heart a political question” (“Ron DeSantis’s Illiberal Education,” Politics & Ideas, Aug. 30). There are two ways in which education is ...

In Town of Carrboro v. Duke Energy Corp., 2026 NCBC 13, the North Carolina Business Court dismissed a municipality’s attempt ...

On September 16, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a United States District Court’s dismissal of a proposed class action by gasoline consumers against several energy companies in D’Augusta v.

Maine’s top election official ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot, citing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The secretary of state said she made her ...

David Rozado at Otago Polytechnic University in New Zealand administered 11 different popular political orientation tests to the LLMs, getting them to answer the questions. Each test was administered ...

The political stakes couldn’t be higher in the coming year, with both the presidency and control of Congress up in the air. And the courts will be involved more than usual, with former President ...

Brooke Migdon, The Hill’s reporter covering LGBTQ politics and policy, answered questions about the state of LGBTQ rights in the U.S. and the stakes of the upcoming presidential election. Answer: Hey ...