In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating President Trump’s tariffs, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — and an implicit critique of its ...

Not long ago, Berta Patterson's corner of Houston was as symbolically red as they come. Up the road is the Harris County GOP headquarters. In the other direction are the old 9th floor offices of the ...

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, speaks during the first day of the legislative session at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tallahassee, Fla. Photo by Matias J.

That is correct. Legislation can be difficult and time-consuming. But that was precisely the core purpose of its design.” Justice Neil Gorsuch, 59, who delivered the opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court ...

In Utah we have wrestled with the question of who should redraw legislative district lines since at least 2018, when voters approved Proposition 4, putting the power in the hands of an independent ...

This is the fifth of a six-part series on the constitutionality of the state’s budget guardrails. Here are Parts One, Two, Three, Four and Six. The “bond lock” is the most important budget guardrail.

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

Who has more power in North Carolina, the governor or the legislature? The question of balance of power between the legislative and executive branches, and the leaders of each branch, comes up every ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...