The House of Representatives has become increasingly closed to minority party amendments, with both sides using procedural tactics to maximize their power and constrain the other, resulting in a ...

The left, fuming over the Supreme Court’s conservative majority and its commitment to the plain text of the confounded Constitution, is mounting a new push against originalism. That’s judicial jargon ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whenever there’s a procedural debate in the House, the discussion inevitably turns to why the amendment process has become so ...