The Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that police roadblocks or checkpoints are only legal when they serve a specific road safety concern.

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

The increased law enforcement presence drew a crowd of protesters a day after the National Guard was deployed on city streets ...

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up to protest the increased police presence after the White House said ...

Advocacy groups say more than 100 cruise ship crew members have been deported in recent months, and they're not being shown ...

From mutinies to modernity, the District of Columbia's unique constitutional status lets Congress – and now President Trump – exert rare control over the capital’s streets and future.

Viewing current events through the lens of German policymakers, stakeholders, and ordinary citizens helped explain their ...

When Louisiana defended its congressional map before the U.S. Supreme Court back in March, Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga told justices that state officials “would rather not be here.”  But ...

Constitutional concerns aside, this development represents the latest in an ongoing saga of Trump flip-flopping on chips, as ...

A federal appeals court on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to restore a public database showing how federal funding is apportioned. The administration disabled the ...

They exposed secret service plans and were hunted down. A look at the battle for the foundations of press freedom and state secrets ten years on.

Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25 per cent ad valorem duty on imports of articles of India.