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GUEST COMMENTARY: In federalism, state, feds limit each other's power

Today marks my 10th year of service for the people of Indiana working in the office of the attorney general. But my career in service to the people of Indiana began much earlier, in 1982, working for then-Senator Dan Quayle in Washington and later in the Bush-Quayle White House as an assista…

July 04, 2011 12:00 am

Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home

INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

May 13, 2011 3:56 pm Related

PDF: Supreme Court ruling in Barnes v. State

GUEST COMMENTARY: With Congress, courts, what matters is balance

A year after the passage of the health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act, its legal future is up in the air.

April 20, 2011 12:00 am

ANDREA NEAL: Constitution should be our guiding document

As a teacher of U.S. history, I'd like to see both of these Tea Party-inspired ideas become an automatic part of the lawmaking process. If only the U.S. Senate would join the House of Representatives in a bipartisan statement that, yes, the Constitution not only matters but is the lens throu…

January 05, 2011 12:00 am