You might have heard the term “constitutional crisis” thrown around on social media or in the news lately. What used to be a relatively obscure concept you might learn about in civics class is now ...

The phrase "constitutional crisis" is being heard a lot on the news and social media lately. It's used to describe recent efforts by the Trump administration to freeze federal funding, revoke ...

When a widely acclaimed Harvard Law School professor publishes a book that another Harvard Law professor calls “the most important book of constitutional theory in many decades,” it’s certainly worth ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. This article is inspired by the author’s work in her book The Originalism Trap: How ...

Most of us know what it means for something to be unconstitutional. An unconstitutional act is one that violates some aspect of the Constitution as understood by the courts, although the public and ...