Federal prosecutors had said Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, should receive a ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, approved earlier this month, would make significant changes to the way ...

The Fulcrum introduces Congress Bill Spotlight, a weekly report by Jesse Rifkin, focusing on the noteworthy legislation of ...

Recovering animals that are nearing extinction, like the black-footed ferret, was the whole point of the 1973 Endangered ...

But Congress had already done the heavy lifting last year. The Defense Department went from 115 to just 41 DEI jobs by July 2024 per a provision in the 2024 annual defense policy law, according to ...

So the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, intended to check and restrain the spending power of the executive branch, is flouted with impunity. Moreover, Congress has surrendered to the president the ...

Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting ...

In a 1946 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote the term martial law “carries no precise meaning,” and said it wasn’t defined in the Constitution or an act of Congress. Edelson said because ...

For these reasons, even when the Founders and Congress have given the president war and emergency powers, it is with constraints. For example, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 makes it a crime to use ...

The Congress Working Committee meeting resolution accused the ruling BJP of attempting to "sow further discord, mistrust, ...

It was not immediately clear what authority DOGE or the White House might have over the NGA, which was created by an act of Congress. A similar separation of powers has not stopped the ...