David O. Stewart

In an innovation some have denounced as unconstitutional, a recent Maryland statute attempts to evade the electoral college system. The Maryland law will award the state’s electoral votes to the…

In the political brawl over whether half a million people in the District of Columbia may have a voting representative in Congress, both sides claim support from the Constitution. Opponents…

Impeach the bastard! For the last two generations that cry has been directed at many top officials, from Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s to President George W. Bush…

Over the objections of state governors from both parties, Congress and the President have taken greater control for Washington over state National Guards. The new statutory provision — which took…

Just signed into law by President Bush today, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 denies the habeas corpus writ to many of those seized by the government in its War…