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Does Laurence Tribe Still Think the Vice President Cannot Break Appointments Ties in the Senate?
On the eve of the Georgia Senate election that could result in an evenly divided Senate, here’s a reminder that one of the nation’s leading constitutional law scholars thinks that the Vice President cannot break tie votes in the Senate on appointments,ย ...
What Criminal Laws are Congress Authorized by the Constitution to Make?
Federalist supporters of the constitution repeatedly assured ratifiers that criminal law – outside a few exceptions – would be exclusively a state concern. In fact, there are just 5 categories where congress has been delegated a power to create criminal...
Mail-in voting and the Constitutions
1. As to elections for LOCAL & STATE offices (where no federal elections are on the ballot): What does your STATE CONSTITUTION say? Does it prescribe any particular โmannerโ of voting? โManner of votingโ refers to a requirement of personal presence at the place of...