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It’s happened before. Will the Constitution face such a near-death experience on January 3?

A recording from Judge J. Michael Luttig and Katie Couric's live video

The Asymmetrical Answer That Came Back Was Utterly Fascinating

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

for all you are doing to save America’s democracy.

January 3, When the Republican House Refuses to Seat the Democrat Majority-Elect to the 120th Congress

"You are lifted and inspired by the majestic cadence of the boldest, the noblest, and best known of all American writings. Even at home there are some who hope it will not be read too loudly"

My remarks this afternoon, June 22, 2026, at the Election Integrity Summit of the Cleveland Municipal Bar Association and the Task Force for American Democracy in Cleveland, Ohio.

"For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other" Thomas Paine 1776

The speech that Justice Clarence Thomas gave last week at the University of Texas could prove to be the single most important speech of political and constitutional philosophy that never should have b...

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I was honored that the Reverend Bishop William J.

This piece by the wonderful Joyce Vance is very important. I was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in 1990-1991. The Presidential Records Act is not even arguably unconstitutional. The opinion to the contrary by the current Assistant Attorney General is a joke. There’s not a chance in the world that Judge Howell will uphold this opinion.

The Honorable Jerome Powell: Profile in Courage, Patriot, American Hero

Former United States Court of Appeals Judge (1991-2006

NYCB calls on all members of the legal profession to defend the independence of the judiciary by speaking up against brazen attempts to intimidate and delegitimize a coequal branch of government

If we but find the courage to speak truth to power now, today, as did the Founders and our ancestors when their time of testing came, the United States of America will endure forever.

Has the Constitution, ratified in 1789, endured as intended by the Framers of the Constitution for these almost 250 years or is it too outdated and incapable of amendment to serve any longer as the bl...

The congressionally chartered museum and national town hall has not explained the sudden departure of Jeffrey Rosen as its president and chief executive

As America approaches its 250th Anniversary on July 4, 2026, "The Pursuit of Happiness" is one of the books “that ‘shaped’ Ms. Trump, from top novels to ancient wisdom"

Jeffrey Rosen, the NCC's President & CEO for the past 12 years, becomes CEO Emeritus of the NCC and Board Appoints Vince Stango as Interim President and CEO of the National Constitution Center

The day that Americans again pledge to each other their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor and dedicate themselves to the great task remaining before them

In the real world, where the rest of us citizens of the United States of America live — presumably protected by the Constitution of the United States -- this . . .

"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."

This dire moment in our nation’s moral life cries out for a renewal of hearts.

Yesterday, with dripping contempt for the country’s “liberal” legal experts, James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board presumptuously purported to ask on behalf of all Americans, “What ...

Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.

"There must be light to answer the darkness, or the darkness will devour us all."

Yes, we must talk about what President Trump posted on Truth Social about the brutal murders of the Reiners.

America's Media Will Have No One to Blame But Itself

The Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, has now filed an official complaint against Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg with the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals...

Everything America has stood for and that Americans have believed in for almost two hundred and fifty years is under attack today by the President of the United States and his Administration, with the...

As surely as night follows day, it could have been expected that The White House would launch a pretextual “criminal investigation” into former President Biden’s cognitive abilities, in a fully transp...

An audio version of Judge Luttig's special July 4 piece

Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.