The House of Representatives opened their first session of Congress last week with a reading of the Constitution. But Sherrilyn A. Ifill of The Root argues that the House was wrong to omit the ...

The reading of the Constitution on the House floor Thursday is a congressional rarity. According to historians it's only happened twice before. It's a bit of political theater intended by House ...

Constitution Reading on House Floor Mired by Yelling, Objections. By reading the amended version, members could avoid controversial passages. By ABC News. January 6, 2011, 10:59 AM.

Elizabeth Hovde: Even if the Constitution was trotted out for political theater, it's still worth planting in the minds of lawmakers and the public at the start of a new session.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took turns reading the Constitution on the House floor Thursday, a nod to tea partiers who put Republicans in power. Even the nation’s founding text got caught in ...

Newly sworn members of the House reading aloud the country's founding document on Thursday didn't recite every verse and article of the Constitution because Republicans decided that the obsolete ...

As Roll Call noted, members aren't reading the entire text, choosing to leave out "the parts of the Constitution that had been amended after the document was ratified Sept. 17, 1787."As a result ...

The Alt-Right's Reading of the Constitution Is Racist, Divinely Inspired, and Incomprehensible | Opinion. Published Apr 16, 2019 at 11:44 AM EDT Updated Apr 16, 2019 at 11:44 AM EDT.

Reporting from Washington — When Republicans announced they would kick off their reign in the House will a full reading of the U.S. Constitution, many dismissed the gesture as merely symbolic ...

Reading the Constitution Right. Clarence Thomas’s fidelity to our founding documents is making its mark on the Supreme Court. / The Social Order, Politics and Law. April 01, 2007 / Share / From the ...

But simply reading the Constitution, without reference to the nearly 200 years of Supreme Court interpretation of its various provisions, ...