Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Sixteenth Amendment, ...

In the final weeks of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump floated the idea of completely eliminating federal income taxes ...

A Feb. 12 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be a 1985 IRS memo from then-IRS Commissioner Roscoe Egger Jr. The text of the supposed memo claims that in a 1985 lawsuit, a ...

The federal government has gotten too fat thanks to how much money it is taking from people. In 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified and added to the Constitution. It was made to give the federal ...

In Moore v. United States, each of the separate opinions contended that the 16th Amendment (ratified in 1913) "overruled" Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895). For example, Justice Kavanaugh's ...

The Biden Solicitor General's office and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson think that cases under the Taxation Clause or the 16th amendment are political questions. This week the Supreme Court decided its ...

User-Created Clip by Eleanorgreen29 July 10, 2019 2017-02-03T22:25:53-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b43/20170203222651001_hd.jpgIn February, 2017 ...