While the nation faces various stress tests for the rule of law upon which our country was built, Missouri courts are facing their own stress test in the hot mess of our current congressional redistricting. Our Legislature redrew our congressional maps in 2025 at the insistence of President Donald Trump. The chief aim was to […]

A federal courtroom in Concord has once again become the center of a national argument over who is an American citizen. On Aug. 11, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups asked the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to block President Donald Trump’s latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. The filing came just […]

The parades, reenactments and fireworks are over. And in the aftermath of Americans’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is important to recognize that the declaration was only the first step in making a unified country. Many of the founders argued that the country needed a remodeled government. They asked […]

(The Center Square) – Two Massachusetts families have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the state can deny certain special education services to children whose parents choose private school, arguing the regulation forces families to choose between education and access to special support.

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Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

(The Center Square) - Tax attorney Todd Bloom says his background gives voters an alternative to his long-serving opponent, Chief Justice Debra Stephens, in this year’s Washington Supreme Court races, as a challenge seeking to block the state’s new income tax is expected to eventually reach the bench.