By a vote of 97-0, the Senate confirms President Reagan’s nomination of Ninth Circuit judge Anthony M. Kennedy to fill the seat of retiring Justice Lewis Powell. Kennedy was Reagan’s third ...
ET: On February 5, Gwynne Wilcox filed a lawsuit challenging her firing by Trump, setting up a vehicle the Supreme Court’s ...
The former Senate leader's 2016 move to block Merrick Garland's nomination was a "total concoction to give the gloss of ...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between ...
The court has likewise narrowed the scope of criminal laws targeting public corruption, holding that bribery laws require an ...
President Donald Trump has begun to radically change how the U.S. government handles immigration, from challenging long-held ...
Idaho’s Republican-dominated state House of Representatives voted 46-24 to pass a resolution to reject same-sex marriage, ...
President Donald Trump has begun to radically change how the U.S. government handles immigration, from challenging long-held ...
The specter of a federal prosecutor putting a city’s mayor or a state’s governor in jail raises constitutional questions.
Gun control advocates tend to elevate the prefatory clause's militia reference, suggesting it's a precondition for the right to firearms. Some even claim that the Second Amendment preserves the right ...
For most of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s 18-year tenure as the Senate Republican Leader, he was vilified as an “establishment” ...