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For the second year, half of Supreme Court cases involve the federal government as respondents or petitioners, a novel trend ...

The Federal Reserve kicked off its second Trump era right where it left off: Doing exactly what it wanted to do, ignoring President Donald Trump’s demands that it lower rates.

Trump’s order also has the effect of blocking most forms of diversity training. That’s hardly a loss. Study after study has shown that diversity training is often an expensive, divisive waste of time.

Through the sometimes blinding storm of executive orders and memorandums in the opening days of President Trump’s new ...

President Trump is pushing legal boundaries by design — testing the limits of his own power and the willingness of a ...

Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a ...

The Idaho House has passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its Obergefell v. Hodges decision on ...

What does President Donald Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to "encourage" private companies to abandon DEI ...

A constitutional convention would present an opportunity to enshrine in the Constitution the tenets, morals, and ethics of a ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed two outside attorneys to defend the lower-court decisions in two cases in which the federal government has declined to do so. In a brief order on Tuesday ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...