Ideology of the Supreme Court
By Douglas V. Gibbs Once again, with a new slate of rulings, the United States Supreme Court has revealed to...
Originalist Case Against McCulloch v. Maryland: How Implied Powers Shattered the Constitutional Republic
By Douglas V. Gibbs The 1819 Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland came up in a conversation, recently, with...
President Trump, an Activist Judiciary, and the Rule of Law
By Douglas V. Gibbs The central constitutional debate surrounding the Trump presidency hinges on a fundamental misunderstanding of what constitutes...
Shifting Baselines of History and Politics
By Douglas V. Gibbs America has been drifting away from its founding constitutional principles, a decay made possible by the...
Judicial Tyranny vs. the Rule of Law
By Douglas V. Gibbs The Founding Fathers feared judicial tyranny. They had watched British judges operate as little more than...
Death of Universal Injunctions
By Douglas V. Gibbs Finally, the United States Supreme Court has stood up and said “Enough!” to activist judges who...
Constitution Day, 2023
By Douglas V. GibbsAuthor, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host The United States Constitution, on this date, achieved its 236th anniversary. Pretty impressive when you...