On Dec. 10, 1903, the US military leased 45 square miles of Cuban territory to build a naval base. How did Guantanamo Bay become an infamous prison for alleged terrorists?
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President Trump has been criticized for the appointment of political allies as attorney general. But history is filled with examples of AGs who were friends and political supporters of the president.
There is one area where the Trump presidency has already been more successful than any in living memory: exposing the weaknesses of the American constitutional order.
Legal scholars offer a vision for appointing Supreme Court justices more fairly. While it wouldn’t require any constitutional amendments, it would require Congress to pass a bill.
‘Treason’ is the only crime specifically defined in the US Constitution. The word is being used a lot these days, and a law professor says no one actually appears to know what treason is.
The allegations raised in a book on the Trump administration by Bob Woodward and an anonymous op-ed would be enough to get most CEOs fired.
An expert argues why the anonymous op-ed in The New York Times can hardly be considered an act of civil disobedience and why it might make things even worse in the Trump administration.
The US Constitution allows the president to be removed from power if his vice president and Cabinet decide that he cannot discharge the duties of his office.
Congress is supposed to be a check on presidential power, but party politics has muted Republican criticism of Trump. Restoring balance means making a radical change.
President Trump has promised to protect religious liberty. But there was a time when evangelicals believed that a religion that needed protection from government had no reason to exist at all.
The Trump administration’s hostility toward journalists is raising new questions about what rights journalists have to access government officials and events.
A recent US Supreme Court ruling marks a new milestone in the debate over police power and privacy in the digital age.
When the U.S. broke away from the “mother country,” the dream was to let the common good overruled selfish and private interests. Yet the federal government is arranged so this can never occur.
Donald Trump has lately been called “treasonous” by some; others say he’s violated his oath of office. What are the president’s Constitutional obligations – and who holds the president accountable?
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
As the Kentucky Senate considers a bill for school prayer, a scholar explains the violent history of prayer – and a time when Catholic students were sometimes whipped, beaten and worse for not participating.
Following the controversy over the resignation of House chaplain Patrick Conroy, in this speed read, scholars explain when the tradition of legislative prayer was started and how it has sustained.
On September 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House had launched a formal impeachment inquiry against the president. But as history shows, the outcome is anything but assured.
The First Amendment protects everything from porn to hateful signs outside military funerals. That includes fundraising pitches of all kinds.
Donald Trump is far from the first president to politicise the judiciary, but the way he’s going about it is uniquely dangerous.
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Visiting associate professor, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor, Westminster College
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
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Assistant Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government, Dickinson Law, Penn State
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Professor of Law, Indiana University
