President-elect Donald Trump named Harmeet Dhillon to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

Republicans senators returned to Washington after Thanksgiving recess to a renewed peppering of questions about ...

With fewer and fewer checks on presidential power, we need rigorous congressional consideration of the incoming president’s ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has signed an agreement to allow the Justice Department to conduct background ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.

These aren’t disagreements on process—like Republican senators insisting on mandated FBI background checks for nominees, ...

MIAMI — The day before Florida’s 2016 presidential primary, the state attorney general, Pam Bondi, surprised her fellow ...

She first won the state attorney general’s race in 2010, during the Tea Party wave that catapulted novice Republican candidates ... and her background as a prosecutor, would serve her well ...

Though vetting of nominations has traditionally included an FBI background check, Republican senators are torn on whether one is 100% necessary for confirmation. Thune told ABC News the issue over ...

It is a bleak moment for Senate Democrats, who had been hopeful that they could hold the majority for the third election in a ...