The Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London (2005), held that private "economic development" is enough to satisfy the Fifth Amendment requirement that the government can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith walks on Capitol Hill on December 17, 2025. - Annabelle Gordon/Reuters Former special counsel ...

Ghislaine Maxwell intends to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination during her Monday deposition in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, her attorney, David ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of convicted sex offender and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to invoke her Fifth Amendment privileges in today’s congressional deposition ...

Former President Trump announced he’d invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a deposition by the New York Attorney General on Wednesday, joining a number of prominent Republicans in his orbit who ...

Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano summarize the key principles courts generally apply in deciding whether to permit Fifth Amendment adverse inferences in civil suits against corporate defendants.

In many western democracies, the way this would play out would be that the press (and opposition parties) would hound the politicians mercilessly until they resigned in shame and disgrace. In the UK, ...