You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court "invented" the power of judicial review in a case called Marbury v. Madison (1803). If you're on the political left, you may have heard it from someone ...

Question: Why can one judge stop policy actions by Congress or the president? Answer: Federal judges at any level are very powerful figures whose authority to interpret laws and the U.S. Constitution ...

Allen C. Tuccii of McNees Wallace & Nurick. Courtesy photo. When President Donald Trump stated that a judicial rollback of his sweeping tariff program would be “1929 all over again, a GREAT DEPRESSION ...

A proposal to prohibit the power of judicial review was postponed indefinitely in an Iowa Senate subcommittee Tuesday. The resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 2002, proposed by Iowa Sen. Jeff Taylor, ...

The Trump administration has attempted to make sweeping use of emergency powers in the areas of immigration, trade, and domestic use of the military. In each case, President Donald Trump has tried to ...

It is an irony of American legal history that the U.S. Supreme Court, armed with the power of judicial review to police constitutional boundaries, has rendered decisions, grounded in the justices’ own ...

A BELIEF instilled in us by our American colonizers is faith in a democracy that, in practice, means that we elect those who craft our laws and the man (or woman) who is the chief executive and the ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a writ petition questioning the Madras High Court Collegium’s composition - on the ground that the issue is “non-justici ...