Ensuring the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”
11/19/18 // In-Depth Analysis
It's time to consider some unfamiliar suggestions for election reform
Richard H. Pildes
NYU Law School
The Constitution explicitly gives Congress sweeping powers to protect the right to vote
David Gans
CAC
11/15/18 // In-Depth Analysis
Congress should revise Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act to expand the circumstances in which courts can impose preclearance requirements
Travis Crum
University of Chicago
Nothing valuable about our federalism depends on letting each state appoint the same number of representatives in the Senate
Richard Primus
University of Michigan Law School
11/14/18 // In-Depth Analysis
Now that Democrats have taken the House, it’s time to start thinking about stopping voter suppression through legislation—via laws instead of lawsuits
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
UChicago Law School
11/12/18 // In-Depth Analysis
I'd like to raise a few questions about the current bout of Senate skepticism that rests on first principles
Michael C. Dorf
Cornell Law School
11/5/18 // In-Depth Analysis
We thank all of the scholars and lawyers who participated in this symposium on our book, How to Save a Constitutional Democracy.
Tom Ginsburg
University of Chicago Law School
Aziz Huq
11/2/18 // In-Depth Analysis
Intensifying political conflicts are steadily shredding the buffers around our constitutional architecture. How should courts respond?
Zachary Price
U.C. Hastings College of the Law
10/31/18 // In-Depth Analysis
In defending our democratic system, 'We the People' can look to the Constitution itself as a beacon that defines the rights we are owed.
Corey Brettschneider
Brown University
10/29/18 // In-Depth Analysis
Protecting democracies is not a matter of any one election. There’s a long road ahead to save our democracy. Here are some key steps.
Protect Democracy
All of those tedious checks and balances and lines of separation that frustrate one and all during times of normal, functional democratic governance have a very real role to play in our constitutional order.
Jon D. Michaels
UCLA School of Law
10/26/18 // In-Depth Analysis
By communicating mainly through Twitter, Trump has asserted the power to define his own political community—and to exclude people from it.
Kate Shaw
Cardozo Law
10/24/18 // In-Depth Analysis
By Rosalind Dixon: Low thresholds for impeachment could undermine (rather than strengthen) democracy
Take Care
10/23/18 // In-Depth Analysis
The Constitution can and should play a vital role in preventing democratic decline
Brianne J. Gorod
Constitutional Accountability Center
By Andrew Boyle: Whether we proceed down the path of erosion, or whether we do the work to avert that path, is dependent on us
