With or without witnesses, Trump’s trial shows that the antifederalists were right to question the Senate’s purpose.
Three new books cover the different ways and reasons that we’ve ended up divided.
If criminal defendants are to face a level playing field at the Supreme Court, a new article says, fundamental change is needed.
Democratic House managers should ask the chief justice to issue subpoenas for John Bolton and others.
The players are being rearranged, but the conductor remains the same.
The Senate is poised to deliver another blow to voter confidence in our system.
A pair of new Supreme Court cases reveal a foundational flaw in how we pick the president.
Only the voters can send the president packing? That’s a joke.
If senators vote to subpoena testimony for the impeachment trial, the president may not be able to block or delay a willing witness.
The president’s legal team must maintain his support in the Senate while arguing his case to a broader jury: voters watching at home.
Conservatives have won a generational lock on the highest courts, entrenching Citizens United. But the courts aren’t the only way to bring change.
The House impeachment managers sought to undercut the central elements of President Trump’s defense, wading into a detailed defense of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The House managers walked the Senate jury through the constitutional and historical basis for the president’s impeachment.
He helped institute safeguards for tenants of 1.4 million rent-controlled apartments in the ’60s and was a key player behind the Rent Stabilization Law.
Legal experts examine the strongest and weakest points of his case.
House impeachment managers continue to make their case that President Trump abused the power of his office. Here are some of the highlights.
Receiving a “political benefit” does not transform an otherwise legal action (like requesting an investigation) into an abuse of power.
Republicans seem to think no president’s misbehavior could ever be bad enough to warrant removal.
Protesters in Virginia were re-enacting — and re-embracing — an exclusionary vision of American history.
The National Organization for Women says ratification is about the law and basic human rights. Also: Big Tech and a campus divide; hydropower’s potential.
The justices heard arguments on a Montana scholarship program struck down by the state’s Supreme Court.
Thanks a lot, Mitch McConnell.
With oral arguments coming on Wednesday, both sides of the long-running fight over vouchers for religious schools are preparing for a watershed moment for public education.
In a memo for the Trump team during the Russia investigation, the attorney general wrote that presidents who misuse their authority are subject to impeachment.
Is he setting the stage to lead Russia for years to come? Is he planning to step down? The confusion may be part of President Vladimir Putin’s strategy.
Prison is still likely for Mr. Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly speaker.
Juan Guaidó debería aprovechar el renovado apoyo que está recibiendo de la comunidad internacional para lograr condiciones electorales que conduzcan a unas votaciones libres y justas.
In “Fight of the Century,” edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, contributors including Jacqueline Woodson, Dave Eggers and Scott Turow explicate landmark A.C.L.U. cases.
The president’s legal case would negate any need for witnesses. But constitutional scholars say that it’s wrong.
Some 22,000 people, many of them armed, flooded the streets around the State Capitol to protest gun control proposals from the new Democratic majority.
In a six-page filing formally responding to the impeachment charges, President Trump’s lawyers rejected the case against him as illegitimate and described the effort to remove him as dangerous.
The president weighed in before thousands were expected to gather in Virginia’s capital for a gun rights rally.
Juan Guaidó should harness his renewed international support to obtain electoral conditions that lead to free and fair elections.
To mark 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Armory and a group of 10 cultural institutions are commissioning works from women.
The Russian president may be leaving the presidency in 2024, but he is not about to retire. That could be dangerous for Russian stability — and himself.
G.O.P. senators will harm Congress if they turn away from new testimony and information relevant to impeachment.
Joe Bryan has maintained his innocence since his sentencing for the 1985 murder. The highest criminal court in Texas this week denied a last-ditch effort to obtain a new trial.
There are better ways to help women, that are less prone to generating backlash.
Gov. Ralph Northam said there had been credible threats of violence ahead of a rally that was expected to draw thousands of gun rights advocates to the State Capitol.
For nearly a century, advocates have tried to add a provision to the Constitution guaranteeing equal rights to men and women. The effort, stalled for decades, has come back to life.
Virginia’s move is symbolic, and crosses the threshold of three-quarters of states needed for ratification. Yet the fate of the E.R.A. is far from decided.
Mr. Avenatti was arrested in California after prosecutors said he defrauded and concealed money from creditors while on bail for similar charges. He will be transported to New York to stand trail in a separate case.
The unexpected move by Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev fueled speculation that President Vladimir V. Putin is maneuvering to stay in power when his term ends in 2024.
In a word, no.
If the Virginia legislature votes to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, it may become law.
If the Virginia legislature votes to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, it may become law.
Chief Justice John Roberts’s role at an impeachment trial may be mostly ceremonial, but signs of partisanship could damage the Supreme Court.
“We can’t have movements that strip us of our fundamental rights,” said Donna Rotunno, who has faced criticism from feminists.
A new law knocks “foreign-influenced” corporations out of city politics by working with the decision, not fighting it.
The Supreme Court has never definitively resolved whether Congress can sue the president.
The president believes that what is good for him and what is good for the country are indistinguishable.
The debate over the resolution reignited a fierce dispute over Congress’s role in matters of war and peace, and highlighted deep disagreements over President Trump’s policy on Iran.
Readers discuss whether the former national security adviser might defend the president. Also: Iranian cultural sites; war fears among the young; online hate; legal help for tenants.
Their contempt for Congress should be met with a legal and political fusillade.
Democrats want to block President Trump from unilaterally starting a war with Iran and have turned to a mostly untested law.
On the first day of a new legislative session, Senate leaders indicated they had made no progress in resolving their logjam over how to proceed.
Two House Democrats joined them in signing a legal brief in a case that is certain to inject the divisive politics of abortion into the 2020 presidential race.
A portrait of an Israeli lawyer who takes on difficult cases involving Palestinian clients.
The Trump administration seeks to undermine a key protection against unlawful detention.
Chief Justice John Roberts’s year-end report on the judiciary praised civics education, but it was not hard to detect a timely subtext that appeared to be addressed to President Trump.