Unpacking the Presidential Appointments Lawsuit
The Supreme Court has concluded oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter. In that case, Rebecca Slaughter, a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is contesting President Donald Trump’s effort to fire her before her seven-year term has run. The president counters...
Virgil and the Constitution
When the Founders created the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they borrowed all three of its sayings from poems attributable to the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE): E pluribus unum (“out of many, one”), Novus ordo seclorum (“a new order of the ages”) and Annuit...
How the Supreme Court Went Wrong in the “Ghost Gun” Case
In its term just ended, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) may regulate weapons parts kits as “firearms.” The case was Bondi v. VanDerStok. It also is called the “ghost gun case.” Under a congressional...