As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, speaks during the first day of the legislative session at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tallahassee, Fla. Photo by Matias J.

In Utah we have wrestled with the question of who should redraw legislative district lines since at least 2018, when voters approved Proposition 4, putting the power in the hands of an independent ...

Federal judge Indria Talwani on Monday handed down her final preliminary injunction, forcing the Trump administration to continue sending Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood. With breathtaking ...

This is the fifth of a six-part series on the constitutionality of the state’s budget guardrails. Here are Parts One, Two, Three, Four and Six. The “bond lock” is the most important budget guardrail.

Trump v. Slaughter is among the most important tests to date of the Supreme Court’s view of the “unitary executive theory” – the idea that control over the entire executive branch is vested in the ...

Tennessee Democrats might as well make up their minds that they’ll have to share legislative power with the Republicans “for at least the next decade,” said Memphis state Rep. Mike Kernell to a ...