Jan. 21, 2026, 4:35 PM EST By  Austin Sarat Progressive Democrats turned up the heat last week in their effort to convince party leaders to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Among other things, they cite

In one sense, the decisions of the governors of Ohio, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia to send National Guard troops from their states to aid President Donald Trump’s authoritarian takeover of Washington, D.C., should not have

Los Angeles is a city under attack. Spurred on by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s outrage that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not been deporting enough people, ICE agents have been sweeping through the

Last week, Donald Trump turned his fire on the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative advocacy group, and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his first term. In a post on

Article II, Section 8 of the Constitution states that before the start of a presidential term, the president “shall take” the oath of office, including a promise to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United