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President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, and White House ...

Alabama leaders, however, say they are doing what the voters want and are confident the laws will be upheld by the courts.

The suit by 14 states says the US President cannot override laws on the executive branch and federal spending or create or ...

The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.

U.S. conservatives have looked to Hungary's Viktor Orbán as an inspiration for a right-wing America, and the prime minister ...

The majority of state constitutions shield lawmakers from arrests, lawsuits and low-level infractions like traffic tickets ...

The Democratic Attorneys General Assn. — a political action committee-turned-judicial alliance of progressive top cops — is organizing a barrage of civil lawsuits against the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump's drive to shake up the U.S. government drove out a rising star in conservative legal circles: A ...

An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power.

The U.S. in the midst of an attempt to consolidate an authoritarian regime. We all have a stake in the protection of the ...

Republican members of Congress and President Trump's backers everywhere should acknowledge the red line that will be crossed if this court-ignoring rhetoric becomes reality. Else, America will no long ...