Can former President Donald Trump, who faces federal felony charges relating to election interference, fraud, and the misuse of classified documents, be prosecuted for actions taken when he was in ...

James Iredell, 1798: “[A]s the authority to declare [a law] void is of a delicate and awful nature, the Court will never resort to that authority, but in a clear and urgent case.” Samuel Chase ...

Only Justice James Iredell dissented, primarily on the ground that Congress had not passed any statute that clearly authorized private suits against state governments in the federal courts.

That is not surprising, as the Founders viewed the Constitution as, in the words of James Iredell, “a great power of attorney,” in which the principals (“We the People”) grant power to ...

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