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.

Gov. Ned Lamont's rhetoric on immigration enforcement implies Connecticut doesn't have a constitutional obligation to follow federal law, Chris Powell writes.

In an era where trust in institutions crumbles beneath the weight of partisan judges and zealous prosecutors, a forgotten cornerstone of American liberty lies dormant: jury nullification. This is not ...

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 ...

According to the law, Robert Morris was a criminal. The second Black lawyer in the history of the United States, Morris was among a group of abolitionists who, in 1851, stormed a Boston courtroom to ...

Increasing public sympathy for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, could pose the possibility of jury nullification despite the overwhelming ...

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, ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

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