Democrats in America have a long and inglorious history of invoking "states' rights" and shirking federal law. It has never ended well.

The recent coverage by The Baltimore Sun of the anti-federal agitation in Minnesota brings to mind another attempt by states ...

When the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010, it swept away much of the Republican Party's existing structure, and instituted a more populist approach. But as waves tend to do, it left some even older ...

Thomas Jefferson doesn’t have much in common with Tim Walz, but in his more radical moments, the Sage of Monticello might have appreciated the spirit of the Minnesota governor’s campaign to resist ...

The weeks surrounding Independence Day are always a good time to assess the American experiment in liberty. For all of our successes, there remains a lot of discontent across the political spectrum.

"All acts, law, orders, rules, and regulations of the United States Government, whether past, present, or future, that infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second ...

In theory, yes. But not in the world we actually live in, where law enforcement is already rife with numerous discretionary decisions made unavoidable by the fact that we have far too many laws. In a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the law, technology and the free flow of information. Jury nullification is where a jury renders a "not guilty" ...

In the 19 th century, nullification was the idea that states could void the actions of the federal government if they deemed them unconstitutional. Its proponents, chief among them John C. Calhoun, ...

Key figures in the administration have involved themselves in the matter of the amendment to limit marriage to members of complementary sexes. Mrs. Bush was heard to say on television that she hoped ...