WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's lawyers will urge the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn three lower courts and to clear the way for census takers to ask all American households next year whether their residents are U.S. citizens.

Debates over the census are usually reserved for demographers and statisticians, but the dispute over the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- After days of media coverage describing the White House portrayed in special counsel Robert S. Mueller's report as rife with dysfunction and ignored presidential orders, Donald Trump on Tuesday lambasted those who cover him.

He even suggested one of his top media targets, The New York Times, should "get down on their knees & beg ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi is continuing to urge her caucus to proceed cautiously on the topic of impeaching President Donald Trump after the Mueller report outlined wrongdoing by the president that many Democrats believe amounts to obstruction of justice.

A partially redacted version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said he won't nominate Herman Cain for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board after opposition from his fellow Republicans appeared to sink the former pizza company executive's hopes for Senate confirmation.

"My friend Herman Cain, a truly wonderful man, has asked me not to nominate him for a seat on the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Impeachment is very much on President Donald Trump's mind even after he declared victory right as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report was made public. But some of his arguments against it are contradicted by the former FBI director's conclusions and legal scholars.

"Only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the federal law that bans sex discrimination in the workplace also protects gay and transgender employees from being fired or not hired.

The three cases to be heard in the fall figure to be the most important civil rights dispute since the court's ruling four years ago upholding ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The House gets a relatively rare chance to directly address the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a legal showdown about whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The case is one of the most significant for members of Congress during the current Supreme Court term. The census results determine ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Newly embattled White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday lashed out at congressional Democrats and reporter April Ryan as President Donald Trump and his team began their first week following release of Robert S. Mueller III's report.

Democratic lawmakers wasted little time Thursday calling for her ouster ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Several leading Democratic lawmakers said Sunday that impeachment of President Donald Trump must at least be considered on the basis of behavior detailed in the Mueller report released last week, while the president's allies aggressively pressed their contention that Trump was exonerated.

Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer, ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- California, with its track record as the most litigious state against President Donald Trump's agenda, still has plenty of momentum, according to its attorney general, who is digging in on everything from climate change to immigration.

Xavier Becerra has compiled an 18-3 case record in lawsuits challenging Trump, with dozens ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, ended a phone call and returned to the Oval Office. It wasn't long before President Donald Trump was in an angry rage.

The AG, since unceremoniously fired, had just taken a phone call from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who informed Sessions he had appointed former FBI Director ...Read more

As the Trump Organization pursued a licensing deal for the planned Trump Tower Moscow, former Donald Trump associate Felix Sater pushed in December 2015 to organize a visit to Russia to advance the project.

Sater told Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen he had the ear of Russia's second-biggest bank, state-owned VTB Group, to discuss financing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The day after the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report, reaction from 2020 Democrats -- as well as one leading Republican -- intensified.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday called for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, while Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he was "...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The House chaplain scored a legal victory on Good Friday, when a federal appeals court ruled he could not be ordered to allow a self-described atheist to offer a secular prayer to the House of Representatives.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with Father Patrick J. Conroy, in his official capacity as the House ...Read more