The executive branch proposes a rule, a district court judge can block it, then one member of the Supreme Court determines if Congress would have approved of that rule. The Constitution establishes a ...

The following column, featuring a selected petition up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference on December 7, appears in today’s edition of Legal Times (available to subscribers here).

When the Founding Fathers were considering how American democracy should be structured, they decided on a bicameral national legislature, based in some ways on the one they were familiar with from ...

Following the ouster of the Awami League government in August 2024, the interim government established a number of reform commissions with a key focus being on remaking the political system.

Ireland and New Zealand have much in common: similar population size; similar post-colonial experience; an inherited Westminster parliamentary model. But New Zealand abolished its upper house. Is it ...