Jan 29, 2025 | The Informed Citizen
by Jodi L. Miller When a U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion is released, legal scholars scrutinize it, either praising it for its considered legal argument or disparaging it because they disagree with its conclusion. What about the dissenting opinion? Not much...
Jan 28, 2025 | The Informed Citizen
by Jodi L. Miller Amid calls for U.S. Supreme Court reform, then President Joseph Biden issued an executive order in April 2021 that formed the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. The commission, comprised of experts on the Court and the...
Jan 28, 2025 | The Informed Citizen
by Jodi L. Miller When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787 it took at least 30 seconds to load a musket. Could the framers of the Constitution have envisioned automatic weapons? In a time when writing daily letters was the norm could they have imagined the legal...
Oct 24, 2023 | The Informed Citizen
by Jodi L. Miller The United States government is a system of checks and balances. The Founders designed it that way so that no one branch—executive, legislative or judicial—has more power than another. In June 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Moore...
Feb 23, 2023 | The Informed Citizen
by Jodi L. Miller If you happened to see the 2023 Speaker of the House election process—whether through snippets on the evening news, or maybe you watched the coverage on CSPAN—take heart, because this wasn’t the longest battle to see who would lead the U.S. House of...
Nov 9, 2022 | The Informed Citizen
by Jodi L. Miller Election rules and procedures in the United States can be complicated. That is especially true in presidential election years because we don’t have one presidential election, we essentially have 50 separate ones. In the U.S. Constitution, Article II,...
