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In the Ohio special election on Tuesday night, Issue 1 — a measure that would have raised the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent — failed, with media outlets calling the election less than two hours after polls closed.

John Lauro, an attorney for Donald Trump, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that a “technical violation of the Constitution” is not a violation “criminal law.”

A pro-parent, pro-life group launched a $5.5 million ad buy on Tuesday ahead of the August 8 special election in Ohio that will determine how the state Constitution can be altered moving forward. 

Jack Smith’s “January 6” indictment rehashes the second impeachment resolution against Trump. It is barred, therefore, by the Constitution’s Double Jeopardy clause.

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of PBS’s “Firing Line,” U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar defended his philosophy of original public meaning originalism and noted that people who advocate against originalism and believe the

Senate Democrats’ demands for conservative private citizens’ interactions with Supreme Court justices are unconstitutional, violating First Amendment and equal protection rights, according to lawyers representing Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society.

A radical abortion amendment will be on the November ballot in Ohio, which would enshrine abortion-on-demand into the state constitution if passed.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down racial preferences in college admissions was the court “taking away important constitutional rights that have been in place for

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) reacted to the Supreme Court striking down racial preferences in college admissions on Thursday by arguing that the court used the Constitution “as a document to restrict,” when

A majority of Americans support the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overruled Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to individual states, a new Rasmussen Reports poll found.

President Joe Biden claimed that the Supreme Court is straying away from what “the Constitution says, we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.”

Harvard University released a statement and a video address shortly after the Supreme Court delivered a ruling dashing the school’s race-based admissions process on Thursday, saying that while the school “will comply” with the decision, it does not change their belief that race should be considered in the admissions process.

Racial preferences in college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, the Supreme Court decided Thursday.

El Salvador’s ruling New Ideas (NI) Party confirmed on Monday that President Nayib Bukele registered his candidacy for the upcoming 2024 presidential election despite the nation’s constitution explicitly forbidding a current president from seeking reelection.

WASHINGTON, DC – Texas and Louisiana lack standing to sue the Biden administration’s policy of not enforcing a federal law requiring the arrest of certain criminal aliens, the Supreme Court held on Friday.

The left-wing organization backing the non-profit news outlet ProPublica that is attacking Justice Samuel Alito also has a history of funneling millions into organizations attacking Clarence Thomas, showing a larger effort to delegitimize conservatives on the Supreme Court.

Federal law’s preference for placing American Indian children with Indian caretakers is consistent with the Constitution, a divided Supreme Court held on Thursday.

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that there needs to be a constitutional amendment barring convicted criminals from serving as president of the United States.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slammed the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump, claiming the move is “not something that should happen” in the U.S., while warning it may be the “final nail in the coffin of our democracy.”

After Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) charged that former President Donald Trump had brought a recent indictment “upon himself,” senatorial candidate and mayor of Riverton, Utah, Trent Staggs slammed the failed presidential candidate who he intends to unseat next year, accusing him of weakness in the face of the “weaponization” of the Justice Department against political opponents.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called Thursday for a constitutional amendment to impose gun control on the country, claiming that his proposal “leaves the 2nd Amendment intact.”

Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) introduced a resolution on Tuesday that acknowledges unborn babies are entitled to the protection of life and liberty established by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The Supreme Court held that on property taxes, taxpayers must “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, but no more.”

The coalition appears to be purposefully obscuring whether the proposed ballot language would undermine parental consent laws.

The Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil, the nation’s top court, overturned a pardon on Wednesday that former President Jair Bolsonaro had issued to conservative former lawmaker Daniel Silveira last year, a move opponents described as blatantly violating the constitutional separation of powers.

Yet-unidentified hooded men attacked the home of conservative Republican Party lawmaker Héctor Urban on Tuesday evening. Urban was recently elected to help draft a new constitution for Chile.

Conservative political parties in Chile won a majority of seats in the nation’s Constitutional Council elections on Sunday, clinching the power to draft a new constitution for the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed his pension reform bill into law after rioting on the streets of Paris.

The recent indictment of former President Donald Trump is “very much in line” with what America’s Founders “envisioned,” according to an MSNBC contributor who described the move as “very much in the American tradition.”

President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate is illegal under federal law, the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court held Thursday in a major defeat for the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON, DC – Joe Biden judicial nominee Kato Crews stumbled during his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, not knowing one of the most basic constitutional protections for citizens accused of crimes by their government, confusing it with Second Amendment rights, about which he likewise seemed confused.

French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will bring forward a law to make abortion a constitutional right following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States.

Chile initiated proceedings this week to attempt, for a second time, to rewrite its constitution — six months after the previous attempt was overwhelmingly rejected by the Chilean electorate in 2022.

On Thursday a three judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision striking the requirement that subjects of domestic violence restraining orders give up their guns.

Anne Holton, wife of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), denounced the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as “fundamental in enshrining slavery.”

Democrat Katie Hobbs, who was sworn in as Arizona’s 24th governor on Monday, giggled while taking her oath, triggering criticism across social media.