District public defenders: Keeping our promises under the 6th Amendment The promise of the Sixth Amendment, foundational in our democracy, is that no matter who you are — how poor or unpopular ...

On February 12, Washington, D.C., federal Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to stop deleting videos of ...

Whereas the twenty-sixth amendment has increased the role of Parliament and the legal fraternity in the appointment process, the JCP Rules have made the system more transparent, objective ...

President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as ...

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our ...

Second Amendment advocates are raising eleventh-hour concerns about past gun-control efforts pushed by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the ...

But rarely do we see something like this: An outgoing president suddenly declaring there is another amendment to the Constitution. That’s what President Joe Biden seemingly attempted to do ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely ...

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex. By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington ...

held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its ...

President Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified and should be considered the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, but the National Archives quickly rejected that notion.

The Senate on Wednesday adopted the first amendment to the Laken Riley Act, as Republicans push for a legislative win to open the new Congress. The legislation in its current form would mandate ...