It might be more than 100 years in the making, but calls to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment were renewed this week at a ...

In November, energy groups filed a lawsuit against Sec. of Energy Christopher Wright and other government agencies involved with canceling Dept. of Energy ...

The New York Times is suing the Department of War over its new policy that bars journalists from entering the Pentagon for not adhering to its newsgathering terms. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U ...

The Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment when canceling billions of dollars in environmental grants for projects in “blue states” that didn’t vote for him in the last election, a judge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith walks on Capitol Hill on December 17, 2025. - Annabelle Gordon/Reuters Former special counsel ...

Few rights are more sacrosanct than the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. This right extends beyond making statements to police or testifying in court, but also to the act of ...

Part 1 of this two-part series discussed the circumstances that led to the omission of property rights from Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But what would life be like if things had turned ...

Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano summarize the key principles courts generally apply in deciding whether to permit Fifth Amendment adverse inferences in civil suits against corporate defendants.

(CNN) — Former special counsel Jack Smith did not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during eight hours of testimony Wednesday behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s chairman ...