Earlier this month, I filed suit against the U.S. Treasury to preserve Missouri's ability to cut taxes, ensuring that the federal government is kept in check—and illustrating the importance of the ...

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Most surprisingly to me, the court ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] The ...

Those of a certain age learned in our grade school civics class of the ingenious structure adopted by our Founding Fathers in an effort to ensure our democratic republic would endure -- the separation ...

The Legislative Counsel Bureau was created more than 75 years ago to provide legal advice and other services to Nevada lawmakers. It has evolved into a de facto advocacy group for the Democratic ...

Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.

For nearly three decades, the Nevada judiciary has turned a blind eye as state lawmakers openly flouted an integral part of the state’s founding document. It now has yet another opportunity to right ...