Constitution
Sorry, Vice-President Pence can’t replace electors on his own
As I point out in a recent interview, the failure of the Trump legal team and its allies to understand the Constitution’s rules on presidential elections has cost them dearly. They have evidence of fraud and other election irregularities. But they have not used that...
The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill is Filled with Unconstitutional Programs
The U.S. government is unconstitutionally stimulating everybody. Congress finally pulled together a second unconstitutional coronavirus stimulus deal and, as most people already know, Pres. Trump signed it. The $900 billion coronavirus measure ranks as the...
The First Amendment’s Wall of Separation
In an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or...
The Constitution, General Austin, and the Seven-Year Rule
With President-elect Biden announcing retired general Lloyd Austin as his pick for Defense Secretary, 10 U.S.C. 113(a) is back in the news. It provides: A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from active duty as a...