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The complex bill, which advances efforts to build a large natural gas plant in Colleton County, passed the House 94-11 on Wednesday. The bill, H 3309, was amended last week to address some concerns, ...

Even though most Americans don’t like some of the Supreme Court’s highest-profile recent decisions, a new poll Thursday found ...

President Donald Trump has been critical of federal judges who've moved to block some of his most contentious actions, such ...

The White House says court rulings going against the Trump administration are coming from “judicial activists” on the bench ...

Trump's assertions of broad, unchecked executive power are a predictable result of the court's "immunity" decision ...

The problem goes beyond the political leanings of judges to the speed of change and the administration’s apparent willingness ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the 1832 case Worcester v. Georgia, so the story goes, President Andrew ...

In one of his first acts upon reentering the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending universal ...

Trump scored yet another legal victory when a Florida appellate court unanimously affirmed the trial court order denying the ...

Two U.S. officials say convicted Russian criminal Alexander Vinnik is being freed as part of a swap that saw Moscow’s release ...