“He who saves his Country,” President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “does not violate any Law.” Does the Constitution, in fact, confer upon the president authority to violate the law? Is there, ...

A federal judge in Kansas ruled on a lawsuit stemming from the effort to call a convention of the states to amend the U.S.

Re “A Warning From Justice Souter: Too Much Ignorance Will Imperil Democracy,” by Adam Liptak (Sidebar column, May 13): Justice David Souter was prescient in raising the alarm in 2012, long before the ...

Federal courts rarely agree with presidents who discount the boundaries of the rule of law. But that hasn’t deterred President Trump from his concept of unbridled executive powers. A worrisome example ...

President Donald Trump is testing the limits of presidential authority. From his use of the National Guard to quell crime, to the imposition of tariffs without congressional approval, to the bombing ...

Americans are prone to venerate our Constitution, mythologizing the founding generation as uniquely wise, and our subsequent constitutional history as a process of evolution toward an ever more ...