The president-elect wants the Senate to abdicate its role in reviewing presidential appointments. It shouldn’t give in.

On the heels of the general election last week, there’s another important vote on tap this Wednesday in Washington that will ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not expected to retire as some Democrats panic about Donald Trump's return to office ...

Trump would face little to no resistance in confirming his picks for Supreme Court justices in the majority-GOP Congress, but ...

A district court judge appointed by former President Barack Obama temporarily blocked a Louisiana law ordering schools to ...

A federal judge on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all ...

Leadership hopefuls have flirted with giving President-elect Donald Trump power to avoid the confirmation process for his ...

As President-elect Trump fills out his Cabinet ahead of Inauguration Day, speculation is swirling inside Mar-A-Lago and ...

Democratic governors and attorneys general are set to reprise their roles in battling President-elect Trump's policies ...

Recess appointments would allow Donald Trump to bypass the Senate confirmation process, allowing him to install nominees ...

Related U.S. Supreme Court set to rule on racial dispute over Louisiana's congressional map Louisiana ... In addition to ...

Noel Canning. That case began after then-President Barack Obama made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board ...