Chief Justice John Roberts was most often in the majority this term, dissenting in just two of the 58 argued cases that the ...

Passing a new law restricting assault weapons took Rhode Island lawmakers more than 10 years, but it may offer a road map to ...

Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who successfully ran for Congress in 1996 as a crusader for gun control after a mass shooting on a New York commuter train left her husband dead and her son ...

Trump secured the biggest legislative victory of his second term in office on Thursday when the House of Representatives passed his sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, sending it to the Republican ...

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate and Assembly have rejected another attempt to legalize marijuana, defeating amendments to budget legislation that would have ended prohibition in the state ...

"We're all kind of guessing about it because we've not gotten a real clear explanation," said AEI's Kevin Kosar.

A record-high share of American voters are content with the work of Republican lawmakers, according to the latest NPR/PBS ...

Last year, the Supreme Court issued a decision in a case over South Carolina’s congressional map that restricted claims of racial gerrymandering, which experts said made such cases harder to prove.

Republican lawmakers have handed President Donald Trump the first major legislative achievement of his second term, following ...

A recent judgment by the US Supreme Court calls into question the separation of powers established by the constitution.

New polling shows that just 30 percent of Americans hold a very or somewhat favorable view of Democrats in Congress.