Columnist Teri Sforza writes that a scholar argues any ‘lawfare’ against Nixon doesn’t absolve him of transgressions.

If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Professional independence requires lawyers to act freely and independently in pursuing justice and has protected Americans’ ...

The Trump administration wants a judicial showdown over independent agencies. The history is muddled—and the consequences ...

On the spectrum from occasional microaggressions to full-blown genocide, there is no such thing as an “innocent bystander.” ...

More than six decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Enrich makes a ...

The legal challenges that sprang from Nixon’s actions are instructive today. In United States v. Yoshida International, the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals ruled in 1975 that measures ...

In the case of United States v. Nixon (1974), the court reaffirmed that the executive branch holds exclusive authority over prosecutorial decisions, emphasising that the president and the attorney ...

"The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level. Whether they’re Trump supporters or not, they’re taking cues ...

Our entire constitutional system would be in danger if a president could simply declare what the Constitution means without ...

While conservative House Republicans have in the past dug in and opposed such spending bills, forcing Mr. Johnson to rely on ...