Our Constitution and amendments are the supreme law of America. The first 10 amendments, or Bill of Rights, were submitted to the state legislatures in 1789 and ratified two years later. We now study ...

Believe it or not, congressional Republicans are still investigating Joe Biden — evidently, the former president continues to be old — including a House Oversight Committee interview this week with ...

Former President Donald Trump declined to answer questions in a deposition by New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office on Wednesday, invoking his right against self-incrimination. The move ...

Donald Trump refused Wednesday to answer questions posed to him by the New York attorney general in her investigation into the former president's business dealings. Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment ...

Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES: THE Fifth Amendment stands in need of defenders because of the motives for which it has been invoked on many occasions in recent times. This may have given a ...

A: The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees that an individual cannot be compelled by the government to provide incriminating information. The Fifth Amendment right “to remain ...

Following the release of dozens of transcripts, the public now knows that several advisers and associates of former President Donald Trump took the Fifth Amendment when questioned by members of the ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

President Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, touched off a flurry of fresh legal speculation Tuesday over how, or if, the younger Biden can move to assert his Fifth Amendment privileges ...