Party Politics Illusion
By Douglas V. Gibbs Democrats and Republicans are not two sides of anything. When it comes to the machine, the...
Judicial Review: The Power That Ratified Itself
By Douglas V. Gibbs Judicial Review is a doctrine the Constitution never named, that arrived by statute, and that has...
This Day in Early American History: Creation of the Office of the Attorney General
By Douglas V. Gibbs Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 1789, which established the lower courts of the federal judiciary...
A Question of Interpretation
By Douglas V. Gibbs There is a fundamental debate in constitutional history that sits at the heart of originalist thought....
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...
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...