Is DOGE Breaking the Law?

Run time: 1 hour, 2 minutes

Kate Huddleston and Michael McConnell join Jeffrey Rosen to debate whether the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has acted lawfully in firing federal workers and freezing federal spending. Listen now

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Law from the 1950s may play role in Columbia University student deportation case

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 4 minutes

“The current case involving Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student facing expulsion from the United States for his participation in public pro-Palestine protests, may center on a law from the McCarthy era, and how courts interpret it. ...” Read more

March 11, 1861: The Confederate Constitution is approved

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 3 minutes

“On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. Here is a look at this little-known third constitution that controlled the lives of about 9 million people for a short period of time. ...” Read more

Artifact Spotlight: Laura M. Towne Diary

Laura M. Towne, a Pennsylvania abolitionist, established the Penn School during the Civil War—one of the first schools to educate freed people in the South. This Women’s History Month, see her published diary in our exhibit, Civil War and Reconstruction. 

Article II

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

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