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Author: BY PETER COY - Publish Date: December 9, 2021 at 03:32AM Any voting system is vulnerable to inconsistency.

Author: BY ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: December 4, 2021 at 11:24PM As justices consider Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law, scholars debate what a reversal of Roe v. Wade would mean for the court’s credibility.

Author: BY KEVIN ROOSE - Publish Date: November 18, 2021 at 01:31AM How a “financial flash mob” is trying to raise $20 million for a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Author: BY DONALD AYER, DANIELLE BRIAN AND NORMAN EISEN - Publish Date: July 19, 2021 at 02:00AM The Justice Department should choose accountability for Mo Brooks and others over neutrality. 

Author: BY ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: June 22, 2021 at 01:15AM A fractured coalition of justices limited the impact of the decision, saying a larger role for an executive branch official would address the matter.

Author: BY EMILY BAZELON - Publish Date: June 15, 2021 at 01:00AM George Packer’s “Last Best Hope” and Jonathan Rauch’s “The Constitution of Knowledge” argue that Trump die-hards and the woke both threaten democracy.

Author: BY CHARLIE SAVAGE - Publish Date: May 12, 2021 at 08:45AM A terse announcement signaled a possible end to a long-running constitutional lawsuit. But former President Donald J. Trump is not a party to the arrangement.

Author: BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG - Publish Date: April 6, 2021 at 06:53AM Some on the right want the Supreme Court to go beyond ending Roe.

Author: BY MICHAEL W. MCCONNELL - Publish Date: February 14, 2021 at 09:13AM G.O.P. lawmakers were unlikely to convict Trump. But a different approach to impeachment would have been more difficult for them to ignore.

Author: BY PETER BAKER AND NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: February 13, 2021 at 07:14AM The former president’s legal team rested its case without using even a quarter of the 16 hours allotted to it.

Author: BY PETER BAKER AND NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: February 12, 2021 at 08:07AM Their warning that the ex-president remains a danger to democracy and could foment still more violence if not barred from running for office again does not convince his fellow Republicans.

Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: February 11, 2021 at 08:25AM The Democratic House impeachment managers opened their case against the former president with a narrative of his monthslong effort to overturn the election and raw footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Author: BY ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: February 11, 2021 at 07:24AM The Supreme Court has placed strict First Amendment limits on incitement charges in court. But many legal scholars say they do not apply in impeachment trials.

Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: February 10, 2021 at 07:55AM After a day that featured a harrowing video of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, only six Republicans joined Democrats in agreeing to allow the trial to proceed, signaling there is not enough support for a conviction.

Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: February 9, 2021 at 07:53AM The lengthy legal brief provided the first extended defense of former President Donald J. Trump’s conduct since the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. It arrived as senators locked in rules for an exceedingly fast trial.

Author: BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT - Publish Date: February 9, 2021 at 06:46AM To avoid having to make a judgment about Donald J. Trump’s conduct in the Jan. 6 riot, Republicans have argued the proceeding is unconstitutional.

Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS AND MAGGIE HABERMAN - Publish Date: February 3, 2021 at 07:37AM The House managers cited the Constitution’s framers in urging that Donald J. Trump be convicted and disqualified from holding office. Mr. Trump’s lawyers said the Senate had no jurisdiction.

Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: January 27, 2021 at 07:49AM All but five Republican senators voted to challenge the constitutionality of the trial, suggesting that Democrats were unlikely to find the 17 they would need to join them in convicting the former president.

Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: January 26, 2021 at 08:01AM House managers presented the Senate with an article charging Donald J. Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” But Republicans are increasingly indicating they are unlikely to find him guilty.

Author: BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: December 23, 2020 at 07:00AM American politics will be shaped by the influence of the monarch of Mar-a-Lago.