Members of Congress also frequently use the Law Library of Congress which serves as a source of foreign law research. We can only imagine what a Trump-appointed Librarian of Congress might do ...

President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a ...

Trump’s bid to exert control over the Library of Congress has resulted in a power struggle between the legislative and ...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would assume the acting role days after Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden nine years into her 10-year term.

Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the ...

The library of Congress is part of the legislative branch ... Jeffries added: “The President probably violated the law.” Questions surrounding the legality or constitutionality of Trump ...

The Trump administration fired the United States' top copyright official over the weekend, following the dismissal of the librarian of Congress late last week.

“It’s the Library of Congress, not the library of the executive branch,” Jeffries said. “The president probably violated the law.” Republicans, meanwhile, were slow to publicly respond ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on May 14, 2025, Sen. Patty Murray condemns Speaker Mike Johnson for not honoring Jan. 6 law enforcement and Donald Trump for firing Carla Hayden at ...

And Texas law often makes it easier for a teen to ... As a retired library director, I know a few things about Hayden and the Library of Congress. I have never known of a librarian of Congress ...

The library also is Congress's primary research arm and the ... it means so much because people who look like me were forbidden by law to learn to read," Hayden said. "That means so much that ...