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Do presidential pardons remove the Fifth Amendment rights of recipients?
Before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden granted several pardons to people who may be asked to testify in the future before Congress. But do those pardons, if accepted, remove the recipients’ rights to “take the Fifth” if subpoenaed during a federal investigation?
Updated: The birthright citizenship question and the Constitution
On taking office, President Trump issued a Birthright Citizenship order entitled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”
How the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday became a holiday
The fight to make the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years, a lot of campaigning, and guest appearances including Stevie Wonder, Ted Kennedy,…
Supreme Court allows TikTok ban to go into effect
A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled in favor in Congress after TikTok appealed a federal court decision that upheld federal law potentially banning TikTok in the…
Can the Equal Rights Amendment be brought back to life?
In recent weeks, several groups have asked outgoing President Joe Biden to order the Archivist of the United States to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (or ERA)…
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