President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he wants to use “recess appointments” to confirm his Cabinet nominees when he ...

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As one reads the Federalist Papers, written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, it becomes apparent that they were very conscious of the weakness of human nature and the human ...

The Federalist Society, a conservative organization founded at Yale Law School, built a pipeline between law schools and top ...

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