Federal elections in the US have been held on the first Tuesday of November ... US President Barack Obama takes the official oath of office from US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, as he is ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link During Donald Trump's first term as president, he appointed three ...

Jackson shares how she’s reflecting on her journey to becoming the first Black woman to be appointed to the nation’s highest court in her new memoir, "Lovely One." The Supreme Court justice reveals ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

In all but five, two in this century, the president has won both the popular votes and the Electoral College votes.

The framers envisioned a limited federal government with strong state autonomy, but the modern U.S. government is far more centralized and expansive, reflecting the rise of execut ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...

The average lifespan of a constitution, often called a "living document," has not increased to the same extent over the last two centuries. Wars, internal conflicts, economic crises, and political ...

In September 1789, Congress passed the United States Judiciary Act and George Washington signed it. It established the federal court system and committed this country to the rule of law.

It’s not (just) weird outfits. Weddings and marriage can seem like one of society’s untouchable, unchanging phenomena, up ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court oh, so wrongly somehow saw fit to strike down a century-old law covering gun licensing in State, ...

The Supreme Court,” Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, “is the autocratic point in our national ...