More than a half-century ago, during Watergate, President Richard Nixon had a stand-off with the Justice Department, and the courts. On Oct. 20, 1973, the president demanded that attorney general ...

Appeals court judge Amul Thapar argues First, Fourth and 14th Amendments shouldn’t extend to noncitizens, ‘let alone illegal ...

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Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a new constitutional convention to pass a gun safety amendment and California lawmakers backed his plan. Now, some Democrats fear the specter of a right-wing ...

A power struggle concerning government spending is heating up in Washington, D.C., igniting what some Senate Democrats call a "constitutional crisis" amid the Trump administration’s efforts to curb ...

Opponents of Donald Trump’s whirlwind return to the presidency scream "constitutional crisis." They claim that the administration will defy the courts, then overthrow the constitutional structure and ...

The Trump administration has issued more than 50 executive actions, since the 47th president returned to office three weeks ago. This has opened the door to a flood of legal challenges — there are ...

Constitutional crisis is a term that’s been thrown around a lot lately in American politics: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler argued in early May that the withholding of the unredacted Mueller ...

Europe’s top judges said Poland crossed a red line by letting its constitutional court block EU law and operate with ...

The Constitutional Court is taking longer than expected to issue its ruling. South Koreans are divided over how to interpret the delay. South Korea’s Constitutional Court hears final arguments in the ...