Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican appointee who retired from the high court in 2009 after voting consistently with its liberal wing, has died, the Supreme Court announced on ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately release a Tufts University student from Turkey who ...

It may not be just the law that stops President Donald Trump from attempting a third-term run. History shows that voters grow ...

Congress must take action to limit presidential powers, as the current trend of unchecked presidential power threatens the ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

For at least 35 years, probably longer, I’ve been hearing that, in order to have any real solution to the southern border problem, there would need to be bi-partisan legislation by Congress. I have ...

The U.S. government dug back to precedents from colonial times in arguing Thursday that prohibiting noncitizens from ...

Trump said, "If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard" for due process. All people in the U.S. regardless of their immigration status have due process rights, based on ...

We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living ...

Many of the new provisions come from Republican lawmakers in states where progressive groups have placed initiatives on the ...

For example, Trump has repeatedly disregarded the basic American protections accorded to free speech by the First Amendment.