Here's why Joe Biden should be able to win a Supreme Court fight

Civil rights groups are renewing efforts to urge the federal government to overrule a series of century-old Supreme Court rulings they say continue to serve as the legal basis to racially discriminate against people living in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories. The American Civil Liberties Union, Hispanic Federation, LatinoJustice...

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has encouraged Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to discuss the possibility of bipartisan action to address mass shootings with Democrats. McConnell said Thursday that he had met with Cornyn, who flew back to Texas this week after a shooting at Robb...

"We don't need more gun control. We need to return to God," the far-right House member said.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) abruptly walked off from a British journalist’s questions about gun violence in America two days after an elementary school massacre in his state left 19 children and two adults dead. Cruz, who is due to appear at a National Rifle Association convention this weekend, became...

ATLANTA — Football legend Herschel Walker had just finished cruising to an easy primary win in Georgia’s Senate race Tuesday night when Democrats let him know the easy campaigning is over. In a hostile welcome to the general election, the Democratic Party of Georgia released a web video...

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took to the Senate floor after Tuesday's deadly school shooting in Texas and pleaded with his Republican colleagues to take action against gun violence, saying what happened wasn't "inevitable." "I’m here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and...

A former internal auditor who was fired after he raised concerns about practices at Axos Bank, the Trump Organization's new lender, won his wrongful termination case against the bank last week. The federal jury hearing the case in the Southern District of California awarded Charles Matthew Erhart, the former auditor, $1 million in damages for emotional distress or harm to his reputation and $500,000 for defamatory statements about him.

ATLANTA — By flexing so often in GOP primaries, Donald Trump has exposed the limits of his political muscle. The former president's top targets — Gov. Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Attorney General Chris Carr — manhandled their challengers in Georgia on Tuesday. Next...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to sign a long-awaited executive order to reform policing practices Wednesday, the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd. The order will create a national registry of officers fired for misconduct; encourage state and local police to tighten restrictions on chokeholds and so-called no-knock warrants; and restrict the transfer of military equipment to law enforcement agencies, said two sources familiar with the matter.

Republican incumbent Brad Raffensperger is seeking to prevail in a fierce primary fight that has been a focus for former President Donald Trump’s efforts to exact revenge against members of his party who refused to aid his efforts to alter the 2020 election results in the state. Raffensperger, who...

Six GOP candidates in the deep-red state are competing for the chance to replace longtime Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, including Katie Britt and Mo Brooks, who was backed by former President Donald Trump before Trump withdrew his endorsement. On the Democratic side, three candidates are vying for their party’s nomination....

Former Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders easily secured the GOP nomination for governor to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson and will face Democratic nominee Chris Jones, NBC News projects. How are votes in Arkansas cast?. Some states and some individual counties provide results broken down by...

The first time I chose to swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution was in 1977, when I became a deputy sheriff in Leon County (Tallahassee), Florida. Each time I assumed a new responsibility in my 40-year career in law enforcement, I chose to swear that same oath.

Tuesday's big primary day brought some resolutions to the key questions looming over this first portion of the primary calendar. But there are still a handful of key races left uncalled by NBC's Decision Desk as of Wednesday morning. Texas-15 (Dem): This is a key runoff race for Democrats, as...

While today, we might think the 2nd Amendment protects our personal right to own guns, a lot of experts would tell you that wasn’t the case for most of U.S. history… at least, not until 2008. In this episode of Think Again, NBC News correspondent Andrew Stern digs into our nation's past to investigate whether or not the founders intended for us to have a personal right to gun ownership.May 26, 2022.

Nineteen children and two teachers, who started the day like any other, were gunned down Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. It is the second deadliest school shooting, after Sandy Hook, this nation has seen. By Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, surrounded by other state officials at a news conference to address the tragedy, managed to rub salt in the wounds of a nation trying to figure out how it is that, yet again, families in America are waking up without their children nestled in bed while lawmakers can’t seem to do anything to curb the rising gun violence.