Tag: Constitution

An alternate, long-shot plan could elect a different Republican candidate even if Donald Trump is presidential nominee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Beltway Confidential

This crazy plan could elect a different Republican even if Trump is nominee

Jason Russell · March 9, 2016 4:26 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia looks into the balcony before addressing the Chicago-Kent College Law justice in Chicago. A letter from the Supreme Court's doctor says Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice's sudden death. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Scalia’s legacy of objectivity

Joel Stonedale · March 9, 2016 5:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's focus on Sen. Chuck Grassley partly reflects an attempt to pick off what has been regarded as a safe Republican seat. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Reid accuses Grassley of wanting to change the Constitution

Joel Gehrke · March 7, 2016 11:29 pm

His question is a reminder of what’s at stake this election cycle: the ideological balance of the Court. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

By breaking silence, Justice Thomas highlights importance of 2016 elections

Rafael Mangual · March 4, 2016 6:00 pm

Watch: Progressive, pro-Constitution group fails civics quiz during protest

Watch: Progressive, pro-Constitution group fails civics quiz during protest

Joel Gehrke · March 4, 2016 5:42 pm

Grassley V. Obama

Terry Eastland · March 3, 2016 9:08 pm

Speaker Paul Ryan said the House will vote on a resolution allowing the House to file the brief in the case United States v. State of Texas. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Ryan sets ‘extraordinary’ vote on immigration case

Susan Ferrechio · March 1, 2016 4:11 pm

Clarence Thomas asked his question toward the end of a hearing on domestic abuse during Monday morning's first session in the case Voisine v. United States. (AP Photo)

Clarence Thomas breaks his 10-year silence on the bench

Kelly Cohen · February 29, 2016 7:53 pm

"I don't think were going to lose one single ton of greenhouse gas reductions," EPA head Gina McCarthy said. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Energy and Environment

EPA defiant despite court’s decision on climate rule

John Siciliano · February 24, 2016 7:17 pm

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stop to look at a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after paying their respects at Scalia's casket, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Justice Scalia’s legacy of originalism

Ralph Rossum · February 23, 2016 5:02 am

Christina Figueres is considered the key in bringing together 196 countries to agree to a nonbinding climate change pact in December in Paris. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Flowers for a ‘climate hero,’ as states slug it out in court

John Siciliano · February 19, 2016 9:55 pm

Because President Obama stands on the shoulders of autocrats, Obama now stands taller than any of them in terms of his constitutional abuses. (AP Photo)

Obama, the fair-weather constitutionalist

Washington Examiner · February 18, 2016 5:01 am