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WASHINGTON — It’s decision time at the Supreme Court, as the justices prepare to hand down the final rulings of their current term by the end of this month. They are due to rule in 21 cases, including disputes over religion, free speech and immigration that could have broad significance. This year’s term has been […]

I’m having a hard time seeing former FBI director James Comey as a victim. Don’t get me wrong: Ask me who I think has more credibility between Comey and his nemesis, President Donald Trump, and Comey wins that contest hands down. Trump promised to release his taxes once elected but still refuses to do so.

CHICAGO — Bernie Sanders stands today as the country’s most popular politician. Once-skeptical Democrats are rushing head-long to embrace his proudly liberal agenda. Candidates are eager to tap into his network of donors and door-knockers. To die-hard “Berniecrats,” that’s more than just an impressive resume — it’s proof that Sanders is the Democratic Party’s presidential

Fifty years ago today, the US Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage — the Loving v. Virginia case. One of the lawyers who argued for removing the bans was a Japanese American who had been incarcerated in a detention camp during World War II. David Muto wrote about that lawyer, William Marutani,

WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch used his first high court opinion Monday to write a concise, pointed essay on how the justices should decide cases — by following the “plain terms” of the law, not by updating an old statute to meet new problems. “These are matters for Congress, not this court,” he wrote.

Ivanka Trump said Monday that she was not expecting this level of “viciousness” toward her father, President Trump, and his administration. “It is hard, and there’s a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience,” Ms. Trump said on Fox News. She did say that she

WASHINGTON — The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia sued President Donald J. Trump on Monday, arguing he has violated constitutional prohibitions on accepting gifts from foreign and state governments. The lawsuit — which comes days after the Justice Department defended the ability of Trump’s real estate empire to accept those payments

By Charles R. Venator-Santiago, Associate Professor of Political Science and El Instituto, University of Connecticut, Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, Chair/Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Depts. Spanish and Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, and Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York. Will the vote