The first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

For the second time, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Inauguration Day Monday in Washington, D.C., by raising his right hand and putting his left hand on top of a Bible.

“In the petition, we argue that administering this oath is purely a ministerial act, leaving no discretion for the Speaker to withhold or delay it once a party-list nominee is validly proclaimed ...

The Proud Boys and especially the Oath Keepers “have been relatively dormant for several years now,” hit very hard and deterred by the seditious conspiracy cases, he said. “In the past when ...

He had been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the Oath Keepers militia, also was released shortly after midnight on Tuesday in Cumberland, Maryland. Trump ...

One day, there will be a trivia question: which Chief Justice issued the presidential oath to the same President, for non-consecutive terms, and presided over (at least) one of his impeachment trials?

Meanwhile, Trump commuted the sentence of the founder of the far-right militia the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2023 for seditious conspiracy following ...

Incoming vice presidents have typically chosen "friends and associates" to administer the oath since World War II. Vance and Trump recite different oaths. The oath the vice-president elect will ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, leader and founder of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, was prepared to give an order he had no experience in giving. That day, William Todd ...

The tradition of swearing the oath of office on a Bible stretches back to George Washington, but not all presidents have observed it. By Elizabeth Dias National religion correspondent As Donald J.

But in one place the drafters of the Constitution wrote word for word what governance would look like under the newly constituted United States: the president’s oath of office. “I do solemnly ...

WASHINGTON – While Donald Trump is being sworn in as president for the second time on Monday, civil rights activists plan to take a different oath just a few blocks from the White House.