Posted on · Like many an owners' manual, the Constitution doesn't always cover all the bases. A constitutional crisis arises at a moment when the Constitution is not enough to resolve a question or a conflict.
Posted on · The Founding Fathers were willing to be edited, it seems, but they did not want it to be easy. So they made the amending process a steep uphill climb, requiring a clear national consensus to succeed
Posted on · Here's a look at the seven constitutional amendments on the statewide ballot for the November 7 election.
Posted on · The organization also contends the 10 year-old undocumented immigrant should not have been sent to a shelter managed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement
Posted on · The organization also contends the 10 year-old undocumented immigrant should not have been sent to a shelter managed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement
Posted on · That is one of the legal arguments the organization will present a at an upcoming hearing on a judicial decision that has blocked key parts of the law
Posted on · Here's a look at the seven constitutional amendments on the statewide ballot for the November 7 election.
Posted on · Despite widespread objections, Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, is moving ahead with a plan to rewrite the country’s constitution. A vote is scheduled for July 30 to elect a National Constituent Assembly that will write it.
Posted on · Some states have a full time legislature, while others pay their lawmakers almost nothing. In Texas, we’re somewhere in between.
Posted on · Gerrymandering is the process by which congressional districts are drawn in a way that heavily favors one party over the other. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina had violated the Constitution by doing this very thing — drawing district lines according to race. After similar rulings in Alabama and Virginia, could Texas […]
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to our rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. This week, our panel weighs in on […]
Posted on · Hundreds of them participated in a citizenship ceremony held at a north Houston arena.
Posted on · Episode: 1267 The secret American Navy of the War of 1812. Today, a secret American navy for the War of 1812.
Posted on · Today we observe National Constitution Day and ask you to tell us what’s so important to you that you would want it added to the U.S. Constitution as the 28th Amendment. Among the 27 Amendments in place are the first ten, aka the Bill of Rights, which address matters ranging from speech to religion to guns. […]
Posted on · Last year, the American Humanist Association sued the Birdville Independent School District, northeast of Fort Worth, over its practice of opening school board meetings with student-delivered prayers. In the year since, the two sides have tussled over motions to dismiss. Most recently, the school district has appealed to have the case against individual school board […]