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The Portrait of Justice The Supreme Court’s class photo tells a story. Here’s how to see it.

Did the Framers even want majority rule?

Democrats Increasingly Say American Democracy Is Sliding Toward Minority Rule More and more Democrats say the system is out of whack, with key pillars of democracy under stress.

Look at the divide! 😬

Conventions like we’ve never seen them before. Perhaps it will be the end of them.

John Dickerson on an unconventional convention CBS News' John Dickerson on the evolving nature of political conventions, and how, as the Democrats gather in both Milwaukee and cyberspace, a pandemic means...

Things change. Conventions too.

John Dickerson on an unconventional convention CBS News' John Dickerson on the evolving nature of political conventions, and how, as the Democrats gather in both Milwaukee and cyberspace, a pandemic means...

Exciting stuff for government geeks!

Listen Live: Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Remotely The high court begins two weeks of oral arguments — the first time the proceedings will have live audio and the first occasion on which the arguments themselves will be conducted by phone.

Civility! 😃

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg welcomed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court When Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court in 2017, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had something in store for him.

Is gerrymandering a political question or a constitutional question that would allow the Court to weigh in? The Court said the former. I would submit that it is constitutional because the framers wanted citizens to pick their representative rather than the other way around!

Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal Courts The U.S. Supreme Court says partisan redistricting is a political question, not one that federal courts can weigh in on.

We know the enemy...it’s us! Don’t blame education. Again.

Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.

It’s something I care about significantly!

Civics lessons: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Neil Gorsuch on promoting education in citizenship Since civics was dropped from school curriculums, awareness of our constitutional government, and our participation in it, has declined markedly

This is educational!

The Danger of the Attacks on the Electoral College - Imprimis The measure of our fundamental law is not whether it actualizes the general will—that was the point of the French Revolution, not the American. The measure of our Constitution is whether it is effective at encouraging just, stable, and free government—government that protects the rights of its c...