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Despite several efforts to delay the case involving hush money payments to a porn star, Donald Trump becomes the first former US president to go on trial on criminal charges on April 15, 2024.
Members of the military take an oath before service, but it’s to the Constitution, not a specific person. West Point professors explain how young officers learn the importance of their allegiance.
Years of research about the people who work in the federal government finds that most of them are devoted civil servants who are committed to civic duty without regard to partisan politics.
These cases have asked the justices to consider how to apply some of the most sweeping constitutional protections – those of free speech – to an extremely complex online communication environment.
A Georgia election law scholar explains what’s behind the ruling and what it means for the state’s prosecution of Trump.
Right from the very beginning of the nation, there have been rules that limit the ability of the people to choose their leaders.
Experts explain the context behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots.
Whatever its decision, the court risks once again being seen as politically partisan.
US law has long held that those who support rebels and insurrectionists are just as guilty of treason as those who support foreign enemies.
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was aided by courts and lawyers in pre-war Germany. A similar situation exists today in the United States.
The first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
Election year 2024 will see citizen initiatives on the ballot across the country, some focused on abortion rights. But there’s a growing trend of lawmakers altering initiatives after they have passed.
The former president has raised several legal arguments that do not yet have clear answers. A constitutional scholar says they’re questions worth asking.
The US Supreme Court faces a case with huge repercussions for the 2024 presidential election – and American democracy. An election law scholar explains why.
A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
The Constitution makes clear that a president who was impeached and convicted can still be prosecuted − but what about one who is acquitted in two impeachment trials?
Colorado’s Supreme Court has removed Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. A scholar of constitutional law explains why.
The question of whether local declarations offering sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ people place local law above federal law depends on what the statements actually promise.
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, University of Texas at Arlington
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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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Assistant Professor, Westminster College
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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 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
