Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...

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, ...

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) proposed legislation aimed at repealing the 16th Amendment, which allows the government to tax people’s income. The congressman brought up his legislation in an interview ...

A tax case pending in the United States Supreme Court, Moore v. United States,[1] may cause a cataclysmic change in the federal income tax. The 16 th Amendment to the United States Constitution ...

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 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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Nearly all of the wealth of super-rich Americans is tied up in “unrealized” gains, ...

Washington — The Supreme Court appeared inclined to leave in place an obscure tax provision enacted during the Trump administration during oral arguments on Tuesday, with several of the justices ...

Professor Hank Adler of Chapman University discusses the income realization requirement dispute in the transition tax case Moore v. United States before the Supreme Court, and its implications on the ...

The Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision Thursday upheld a provision in then-President Trump’s sweeping 2017 tax bill while sidestepping a far-reaching question about Congress’s broader taxing authority.

The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in February 1913, created the federal income tax in America. Income taxation is now an issue discussed daily in the United States. FILE - This July 24, 2018, file ...