Though it was rewritten by Congress in the wake of the Civil War, as Americans grappled with allowing former Confederates into federal service at all, that oath of office is still with us ...

Ethics laws make it a federal criminal offense to take actions that benefit family businesses — even for so-called special ...

During President Barack Obama‘s first inauguration in January 2009, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered the traditional oath of office. It was the first time Roberts conducted ...

This choice of setting coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday celebrating King's legacy. Trump's choice to mirror Obama's historic two-Bible oath-taking in 2013 further ...

Lyndon Johnson was sworn in by a federal judge on Air Force One ... In 2009, then-President Barack Obama had to take his oath of office a second time after Roberts flubbed a word.

Obama took the oath of office that year using a Bible that had belonged to King himself. Because Monday is a federal holiday, entities like the U.S. Postal Service, banks and many schools will be ...

The Freedom Forum, whose mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all, says various federal ... Barack Obama’s ambassador to Switzerland, swore the oath of office using a Kindle ...

On Friday, Kelly was one of a handful of Jan. 6 defendants sentenced for his role in a riot that Trump has made clear he hopes to erase from history — while federal judges plead with the world ...

no federal mechanism to determine the application of the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. When Trump takes the presidential oath of office this time, he will take it as a convicted felon ...