The Supreme Court’s 5–4 ruling in Rucho v. Common Cause last month dealt a harsh blow to American democracy. For the last decade, federal courts were the strongest bulwark against partisan ...

The United States guarantees that every State government will be the Republican Form of Government. This guarantee is the "Guarantee Clause" in the Constitution, Article IV, Section 4. Article IV, ...

Ready for Your Close-Up? Not If You’re the Wrong Race End Racial Gerrymandering Small Business Needs Permanent Regulatory Relief, Too Karen Wright, Fierce Friend of Liberty and, Above All Else, Mother ...

A critique of claims that the federal government and the states can use military force to prevent immigration, based on constitutional powers to prevent "invasion." What a real invasion looks like.

One of the sleeper clauses in the U.S. Constitution is Article IV, Section 4, known as the Guarantee Clause. It provides that “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a ...

The past decade has seen voter suppression and partisan gerrymandering grow dramatically worse, while the Supreme Court has undercut efforts to fight back through litigation — both by striking down a ...

The U.S. Constitution contains several idle provisions: words, phrases and clauses that have little to no bearing on our constitutional order as it currently exists. Let’s start here: Article 3 of the ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. One of my friends jokes that many of North Carolina’s major political difficulties in ...