Fifth Amendment

The Supreme Court held that on property taxes, taxpayers must “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, but no more.”

President Donald Trump exercised his Fifth Amendment rights on Wednesday when called in by Attorney General Letitia James to provide a deposition in a civil investigation that is probing allegations that he overvalued his real estate assets.

Alex Bruesewitz, CEO of the Republican consulting firm X Strategies, exclusively gave Breitbart News the prepared remarks he said to the “illegitimate and unconstitutional” January 6th Committee on Tuesday, which stated that his “position has not changed” on the “opposition research operation conducted by former ‘Republicans’ and the rabid left wing of the Democratic party.”

Rep. Tom Tiffany grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on basing federal loan forgiveness on race.

The defense rested its case Thursday in the trial of former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd last May, with Chauvin exercising his Fifth Amendment rights and declining to testify himself.

A minister filed a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris claiming the fence surrounding the Capitol is preventing him from holding a prayer vigil.

Democrats reiterated Monday a threat to punish former President Donald Trump for not testifying at the impeachment trial in the Senate, which begins Tuesday.

In pursuing a partisan case for impeachment, Democrats have also violated several cherished amendments in the Bill of Rights.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by counsel Barry Berke, violated attorney Stephen Castor’s constitutional rights in questioning him during Monday’s impeachment inquiry hearing.

Former Olympian Ian Danney pleaded the Fifth 46 times during a deposition over charges that he illegally provided drugs into athletes.

A middle school in Ohio has removed its display of the Ten Commandments following complaints by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that New Jersey’s ban on “high capacity” magazines “does not unconstitutionally burden the Second Amendment’s right to self-defense in the home.”

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration in Washington, DC, on Friday to restore the White House press credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta. But the appellate precedent underlying that order is wrong, so the Justice Department should continue appealing it all the way to the Supreme Court, where the case should be dismissed under the political-question doctrine.

Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Steele dosser, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before House investigators on Tuesday.

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) told Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is in “real legal jeopardy.”

House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte subpoenaed FBI agent Peter Strzok Friday — days after an attorney for the embattled investigator said he would testify voluntarily before Congress. 

Peter Strzok, the FBI agent removed from the Mueller probe following the discovery of anti-Trump text messages, is ready to testify before Congress.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that while everyone has the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment, it would be “a staggering admission of criminal liability” if President Trump took the Fifth. Blumenthal said, “We

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has published an article celebrating the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a victory for the rule of law — not a violation of attorney-client privilege and the president’s constitutional rights.

NEW YORK — An extensive New Yorker profile cites a former national-security official claiming that a longtime associate of John McCain sent by the Arizona senator to obtain the infamous anti-Trump dossier hatched a plan whereby McCain would use the document to confront President Donald Trump and get him to resign.

NEW YORK — David J. Kramer, a former State Department official and longtime associate of John McCain, reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment to get out of testifying before the House Intelligence Committee regarding the infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that if President Trump invokes the 5th Amendment to avoid answering questions in response to a grand jury subpoena, it “would be a profound sign, adding to this

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that fingerprint scanning locks commonly found on smartphones are not protected by the Fifth Amendment.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday won the first legal battle at the Supreme Court over DACA in a unanimous decision.

U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick III issued a permanent injunction Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive order directing that federal funds be withheld from “sanctuary city” jurisdictions.

Fifteen states with leftist attorneys general sued President Donald Trump in federal court on Wednesday over his decision to end President Barack Obama’s controversial DACA program.

The Supreme Court set aside an appeals court decision involving the fatal border shooting of a Mexican national by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, sending the case back down for further proceedings on possible violations of constitutional rights and whether the agent is personally liable to pay money to the Mexican citizen’s family.

Seventeen cases from this year’s Supreme Court term are still pending, with decisions expected in the next eight days. Religious liberty, the constitutional rights of illegal aliens, and free-speech rights to express messages some people find offensive are several of the high-profile issues raised in the remaining cases.

A federal court in California dealt President Donald Trump another legal setback on Tuesday in his efforts to combat illegal aliens, blocking an executive order (EO) that denies federal funds to sanctuary cities. This issue appears eventually destined for a Supreme Court showdown.

San Francisco’s federal appeals court asserted a novel theory on Thursday to claim jurisdiction over the legal challenge to Executive Order 13769, affirming the lower court’s order halting President Trump’s temporary travel-restriction policy.

In an unusual move, a federal judge in Washington State granted a nationwide emergency order on Friday night blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration travel, declaring the order unconstitutional. The Trump Justice Department can now appeal the order

While Hillary Clinton and her Democrats are trying to sell Khizr Khan as a constitutional expert, the reality is that the Constitution allows Donald Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigrants from terror-related countries. However, if a liberal justice takes Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court, the ban would be struck down nonetheless.

Only a few months after a coalition of left wing attorneys general and environmentalists commenced an intimidation campaign against ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) for its presumed politically incorrect views on climate change, the effort has begun to stall after the U.S. Virgin Islands dropped its subpoena amid accusations of political bias and civil rights violations.

We’ll never have “watch lists” of government elites suspected of involvement in corruption. The Fifth Amendment is the only part of the Bill of Rights Democrats still seem to care about, but they’re really in love with it.

When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.

Speaking on the surveillance of Muslims, leading liberal constitutional professor Alan Dershowitz declared, “Criminals should have more rights than law-abiding citizens.” The professor’s statement is wrong, and it misses the more relevant point regarding the war on Islamic terrorism.