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With congressional Republican leadership on board and a mandate-level victory in the presidential election, recess ...

In Federalist No. 76, Hamilton wrote that the advice and consent power is “an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in ...

The Rappahannock Tribe has become the first tribal nation in the United States to successfully adopt a tribal constitution ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed the BJP-led alliance's sweeping victory in Maharashtra as popular endorsement ...

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Attorneys general from 24 states are asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling and uphold an Arizona law to ...

The election of South Dakota’s Senator John Thune as Senate majority leader is one of the few bright spots for our democracy ...

The cases explore whether Congress violated the Constitution when it allowed the Federal Communications Commission to gather ...

The failure of the nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general puts the president-elect at a fork in the road in respect ...

While the UK is not obliged to have deputy prime ministers, some of the most influential politicians of modern times have had ...

The move by the president to adjourn Congress to make recess appointments would create a new precedent, experts say, ...