The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle and some are hidden. The chief instrument of ...

In Employment Division v. Smith, Justice Scalia identified the concept of hybrid rights: a restriction that targets two constitutional rights would be reviewed with heightened scrutiny. For example, a ...

On Monday Dec. 1, the state Senate State Government Committee considered Senate Bill S4924, presented as an efficiency measure to consolidate investigative functions by transferring the ...

Based on the Constitution’s separation of powers U.S. Distict Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York should deny the Justice Department's motion to drop its own case against New York City ...