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On February 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico without President James K. Polk’s knowledge. The United…
When the U.S. Supreme Court term began last fall, the docket contained a number of major cases but had little of the potential…
In one of the biggest cases of the current term, the Supreme Court’s calendar for January 2024 features arguments about the…
On Dec. 19, 2023, the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the Supreme Court upon the Lincoln catafalque. The…
On December 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ended a Florida vote recount in the presidential election contest between George W. Bush…
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government into early 2024, pending…
The current controversy over the Speaker of the House of Representatives has highlighted that position’s role as one of the most…
It was on this day in 1964 that a joint session of Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, an act that led to the Vietnam…
Most people aren’t big fans of a national income tax, but it was on this day back in 1861 that the first one was levied by the…
A political deal to secure the vote of a Democratic senator in the recent debt ceiling battle has teed up a U.S. Supreme Court…
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