The first ten amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. To appease several states during the ratification process, James Madison wrote the amendments as a solution to limit government ...

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is ...

By Anna Cecil TheStatehouseFile.com December 10, 2025 On the third day of redistricting discussions in the Indiana Senate, Democratic lawmakers proposed three amendments, all of which failed along ...

Supreme Court will hear challenges to Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, but the Constitution and 140 ...

By Chloe White TheStatehouseFile.com December 4, 2025 On Thursday, the Indiana House of Representatives dismissed multiple ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly flirted with the idea that he could run for a third term in 2028. “There are methods which you could do it,” the president said in an interview with NBC News earlier in the ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear ...

The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a permitting bill Thursday, clearing a big hurdle to crafting broader compromise legislation that lawmakers hope to pass this Congress. But the markup on ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Florida lawmaker is accusing the state of selling personal information to third parties and generating nearly half a billion dollars from the sale of driver’s licenses and ID ...

“At its core, this bill would make patents and other intellectual property rights effectively unenforceable for the Davids of our economy: small inventors, startups, and entrepreneurs who challenge ...

House lawmakers have collected enough signatures to force a vote on a bill that would nullify President Trump's executive order terminating collective bargaining rights for most federal workers. It's ...

Tuesday — and the wee hours of Wednesday — brought a plot twist to the Nevada State Legislature and Gov. Joe Lombardo’s sweeping crime bill, with the introduction of an amendment adding provisions ...