Presidential debate: The media’s ignorance of the Constitution & questions that SHOULD have been asked
The Constitution tells us that the president’s most important tasks are enforcing federal laws, nominating and appointing federal officers and judges, signing and vetoing bills, recommending measures to Congress, commanding the military, and . . . conducting foreign affairs. There is nothing in the job description about health care or pandemics, ending pollution, or fighting “institutional racism.”
The Left’s War on the Constitution
[T]he “progressives” have lost the argument over constitutional meaning. And that is why they have pivoted to assail the document itself.
Is the Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett Unconstitutional?
[T]he statements by Biden, Leahy, and Feingold are flatly incorrect. The current proceedings are neither “unconstitutional” nor “illegitimate” nor an attempt to “steal” anything.
U.S. Supreme Court Justices relied on II research several times this year
U.S. Supreme Court Justices relied explicitly on Independence Institute briefs three times this year. In addition, one Justice awarded Rob Natelson, our Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence, his 20th Supreme Court citation.
The Electoral College: The target of politicians who would make things worse
If we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
The “right to travel”
Most people would recognize the right to travel as an inherent, natural right of free people, and the courts say that it is the Constitution. But is it really there?
Another take-down of the “conservative Supreme Court” myth
Statistics from the Supreme Court’s last term belie the claim that it has become conservative.
Civics 101: How to understand the Constitution
“Here’s an important, but widely overlooked, feature: The document doesn’t grant power only to federal officials. It also confers power on persons and entities who are not part of the U.S. government at all.”
Latest COVID orders layer chaos over confusion, add to risk
In issuing his latest directive, the governor missed opportunities to quit being an autocrat and start being a statesman.
COVID-19 and the Constitution
The Constitution’s flexibility in emergency is why the late Justice Robert H. Jackson once said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But emergencies do not cause the Constitution to vanish.
New article shows how amendments conventions and other “federal functions” are regulated
“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
New court ruling exposes unconstitutionality of Colorado lockdown orders
Colorado’s orders are classic examples of infringements of fundamental rights that are both overbroad and underinclusive—and therefore unconstitutional.
