Mr. Trump won the presidency in 2016 after making more than 100 promises. Here’s where some stand four years later and what some of his supporters think of them.
Trump ganó la presidencia en 2016 haciendo más de cien promesas. Cuatro años después, este es el avance de algunos de esos compromisos y lo que piensan algunos de sus seguidores de ellos.
In western Colorado, the election is about “not having the government think for us, the right to protect ourselves.”
Alexandra Wilson is working to change England’s legal establishment, and perceptions about who belongs in it, from the inside.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes Hindus more equal than religious minorities, Muslims seek equality from the secular Constitution, not Shariah.
While the chief justice’s views have not been fully endorsed by any of his colleagues, they have so far prevailed in five recent disputes, delivering victories to both Democrats and Republicans.
Peter Diamond, a 2010 Nobel laureate in economics, suggests an improvement over the current electoral system. Also: Betsy Gotbaum on voting in New York City; honoring the poll workers.
Republicans in both states opposed the extensions. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who joined the court on Tuesday, did not participate in either case, saying she had not had time to fully review the briefs.
You know who really reduced abortion numbers in the U.S.? President Obama, with the Affordable Care Act.
Lawyers paid by the Pentagon pursued the appeal on behalf of the released prisoner even as the State Department had a $4 million bounty out for him.
The court deadlocked last week in the same case, but Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who it was expected would cast a deciding vote, did not participate in the second request for review.
He was the only Hispanic to serve on the First Circuit court in Boston. In July he moved to overturn a death sentence in the Boston Marathon bombing.
After Virginia passed gun laws, conservatives began invoking the state’s colonial-era constitution, which calls for a “well regulated militia.”
After two decades of legal obscurity, the ruling that handed the 2000 election to George W. Bush is getting fresh attention.
No one is quite sure.
It is dangerous and destabilizing.
Ignoring cries of blatant hypocrisy, the Senate leader pushed through pre-election approval, capping off his reshaping of the judiciary.
The addition of Justice Barrett, at a time when the judicial system has grown increasingly conservative and pro-religion, could reshape the legal landscape for years.
Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation has tilted the high court's ideological balance. What should the court’s future be, and who gets to decide it?
Como jueza de un tribunal de apelaciones, Barrett ha emitido opiniones que reflejan las de su mentor, el juez Antonin Scalia, pero con pocos de sus ocasionales fallos liberales.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a bid to scrap the charter inherited from Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, a move that could set a new course for the country.
Either we become a truly multiracial democracy or we cease to be a democracy at all.
The New-York Historical Society’s crash course in governmental innovation, paused for the pandemic, reopens at just the right moment.
The party’s survival depends on frozen politics.
A corporate lawyer who gave time for public service in New York, she also criticized police stop-and-frisk tactics and school funding that harmed Black and Hispanic people.
The decision, which cannot be appealed, halts pregnancy terminations for fetal abnormalities, virtually the only type currently performed in the country.
It wasn’t clear how many inmates might be released early or transferred to other facilities, given that San Quentin houses some of California’s most dangerous prisoners.
Federal authorities and academics have long described private paramilitary organizations as “militias.” Some critics say the term gives the groups more legitimacy than they deserve.
Do we really want our rights to be determined by the understandings of centuries ago?
Judge Cryer, who traced her ancestry to the Pottawatamie people, traveled the country to assist poorly funded native courts. She died of the coronavirus.
Readers discuss the pressure on Joe Biden to answer whether he would add seats to the court.
After sheltering a prominent dissident, Yang Bin, a former prosecutor, is now under the scrutiny of the police. But she has no regrets.
A 4-to-4 tie let stand a ruling from Pennsylvania’s highest court that had extended the deadline for counting some mailed ballots by three days, citing the pandemic and postal delays.
He made clear the constitutional rights of foreign actors abroad cannot be violated, because they have no constitutional rights.
If confirmed, she may soon have to reconcile her Catholic morality and the law over a death penalty case.
En Estados Unidos no es el voto popular nacional el que determina quién gana la presidencia.
Joe Biden should be open to enlarging the number of justices. But first, he should see if the conservative majority overplays its hand.
La constitución de Pinochet necesita una reforma profunda, pero el proceso no está exento de riesgos.
Pinochet’s Constitution needs an overhaul, but the process is not without risks.
A new report found pervasive examples of racial bias — some explicit, some subtle — in New York State’s court system.
Federal district courts have tended to rule for Democrats in litigation over how to run the election, but appeals courts, well stocked with the president’s nominees, are blocking them.
“Century of Struggle,” her 1959 history of the women’s rights movement, uncovered previously ignored narratives, like the contributions of African-American women.
A new study found a partisan pattern in rulings that could make it easier or harder to vote, fueling a debate among Democrats over court packing.
Roman Giertych, who has been involved in high-profile cases against members of the governing party, was put in handcuffs and had his home searched by the authorities.
Her originalism ignores the significance of the second American Revolution.
With Philip J. Hirschkop, he brought Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court, which struck down laws against interracial marriages.
The Senate Judiciary Committee lined up a vote for Oct. 22 on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, as Democrats warned Republicans would rue the day.
Abortion access would decline in large regions of the country, a new data analysis shows.
The move comes two months after the California Supreme Court overturned a sentence of death for his 2004 convictions.
Republicans blocked a Democratic move in the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay the confirmation process, as their leader declared, “We have the votes” to prevail.
A catastrophic sequence of decisions has blocked states from responding to the pandemic.
Readers discuss the Affordable Care Act, abortion and how the Democrats were “snookered.”
A lawsuit claims Jones Day helped trick Warren Buffett’s organization into buying a German company for five times what it was worth.
President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee refused to weigh in on critical matters that could come before the court, including health care, abortion rights and a possible election dispute.
The G.O.P. blocked Obama and quick-pitched Amy Coney Barrett. Democrats must fight fire with fire.
It’s way too late for the right to pretend to care about civic norms.
As the Senate begins hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, some liberals say expanding the size of the Supreme Court would be a fitting response to recent Republican moves in the confirmation wars.
She has already been called an extremist on questions of precedent. But in her writing, she has expressed a decidedly mainstream view.
As Judge Barrett’s confirmation hearings are set to begin Monday, her background and résumé are a stark departure from those of more traditional nominees to the Supreme Court.
As an appeals court judge, Judge Barrett has issued opinions that have reflected those of her mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia, but with few of his occasional liberal rulings.
Even before the president was given mood-altering drugs, there was a movement to end the commander in chief’s sole authority to launch nuclear weapons.
We asked readers if and how you would alter the way justices are chosen and how the court works, and received more than 1,500 responses. Some of your suggestions would require constitutional amendments.
Presidential elections are scheduled soon in at least 10 African countries. Many incumbents are changing constitutions and bending rules to ensure they stay in power.
Pointing to President Trump as a cautionary tale, Democrats proposed naming a group of outside experts to advise Congress on when to invoke the 25th Amendment to forcibly revoke an impaired president’s powers.
Readers worry that steroids may be affecting the president’s mental state and call for the 25th Amendment to be invoked.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, proposed legislation that would create a bipartisan group of outside experts to advise Congress as to whether President Trump’s powers should be forcibly removed under the...
The president — and Congress — should stop outsourcing the defense of the Constitution to judges.
If Republicans replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amy Coney Barrett, they should pay a price.
This country is not just an idea. It’s a family.
These groups have no constitutional right to exist.
Trump administration officials have said the Chinese-owned app presents a security risk to American users.
The donation, timed to the centennial of the 19th Amendment, doubles the library’s holdings relating to the party, which fought for women’s suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment.
Here are some suggestions for senators considering her nomination to the Supreme Court.
Mike Pence and Kamala Harris took contrasting positions on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett and what it may mean for Roe v. Wade.
The dispute will now probably head to the Supreme Court for a second time.
As investigation commissioner under Mayor Lindsay in the early 1970s, he went after police officers, building inspectors, parking ticket fixers and peep-show operators.
The justices considered two provisions of Delaware’s Constitution aimed at ensuring partisan balance on the state’s courts.
A question on November’s ballot asks residents if they support changing the state Constitution to allow recreational use of the drug.
How can we possibly make sense of it all?
It’s the Electoral College, not the national popular vote, that determines who wins the presidency.
The president was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where officials said he would stay for several days. Aides said Mr. Trump was experiencing coughing, congestion and fever, symptoms that worsened through the day.
La Constitución dice que el vicepresidente es el siguiente funcionario en la línea de sucesión, si el presidente muere o ya no puede servir, pero las cosas se complican a partir de ahí.
With President Trump’s positive coronavirus test, Vice President Mike Pence will take on a more prominent campaign role and represent him at events.
The Constitution says the vice president is next in line if the president dies or can no longer serve, but things get murkier from there.
The president has tested positive for the coronavirus and is isolated at the White House for the time being. Aides said he has “mild symptoms” but much remains unknown.
Finding common ground on the role of Islam is the most decisive task in the peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
El resultado de la prueba del presidente llega luego de que pasó meses minimizando la gravedad del brote que ha matado a más de 207.000 personas en Estados Unidos y horas después de insistir que “el fin de la pandemia está a la vista”.
The president’s result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
The president’s result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
Her statement appears to be the most direct evidence of her personal views, ones she has vowed to set aside on the bench.