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Mamdani cannot run for president in 2028, or ever, because of Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution which says, “No person except a natural-born Citizen… shall be eligible to the Office of President.” Notably, Mamdani was born in 1991 to non-American parents in Uganda. He became a US citizen through naturalisation in 2018.
Donald Trump is in South Korea as he continues his Asia tour. The US president said the two nations had “pretty much finalised” a trade deal – which in reality may mean a tr
For quite some time, the leftist political establishment has been accusing President Trump of abandoning the US Constitution. Now they have me wondering why that’s supposed to be a criticism. A protester holding a shredded copy of the US Constitution in ...
A "coding error" was to blame for key sections of the Constitution going missing from the Library of Congress’ Constitution Annotated website, but critics are crying foul. The missing sections happened to be clauses that President Trump has questioned ...
Jill Lepore’s “We the People” examines amendments as engines of change. And “History Matters” offers insights from the late David McCullough.
Yes, sections of the Constitution were missing on a government website. No, it didn’t change US law.
In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.
The American Constitution Society named Phil Brest, a former senior White House Counsel under Joe Biden, its president as top progressive legal organizations tap new leadership amid Trump administration attacks on lawyers and the judicial system.
In 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe, I attended a North Atlantic Assembly conference in Brussels, Belgium, on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The North Atlantic ...