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 ...
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 ...
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 and protect the nation from executive tyranny, has ...
The judiciary exists to interpret laws and ensure they comply with the Constitution. If the executive branch were to violate the constitutional rights of individuals—for example, by attempting to ...
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 ...