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10/08/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/07/arts/supreme-court-photo.html

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

06/09/2021

Did the Framers even want majority rule?

More and more Democrats say the system is out of whack, with key pillars of democracy under stress.

12/09/2020

Look at the divide! 😬

08/18/2020

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

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...

08/17/2020

Things change. Conventions too.

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...

05/05/2020

Exciting stuff for government geeks!

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.

09/10/2019

Civility! 😃

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

06/27/2019

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!

The U.S. Supreme Court says partisan redistricting is a political question, not one that federal courts can weigh in on.

06/24/2019

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

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

06/20/2019

It’s something I care about significantly!

Since civics was dropped from school curriculums, awareness of our constitutional government, and our participation in it, has declined markedly

06/18/2019

This is educational!

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...