‘Constitutional hardball’ Levinson, who co-authored a 2009 paper trying to define a constitutional crisis, told me during Trump’s first administration that crisis is built into the Constitution.

“I don’t like the phrase ‘constitutional crisis’ because it has this contention that unless the whole system is up for grabs, we shouldn’t care about an 18- or 19-year-old kid in Chicago ...

Incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) warned of a “constitutional crisis” if the House can’t swiftly elect a speaker. A law dating to the first Congress in 1789 requires the election of ...

While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its ...

The last type of constitutional crisis — when different parts or branches of government are at loggerheads — might be the one we are most likely to see during Trump’s administration.

The growing fallout from a public defender work stoppage could now set criminal defendants free across Massachusetts.

The Ohio Legislature is conducting a constitutional coup in Ohio education policy, as the state legislature moves to ...

Sample said constitutional scholars have differed on what exactly defines a constitutional crisis. "The one thing we can say for certain is that it's not an on-off switch," Sample said of ...

Sample said constitutional scholars have differed on what exactly defines a constitutional crisis. "The one thing we can say for certain is that it's not an on-off switch," Sample said of ...