The typical reaction to anyone invoking the Fifth Amendment under questioning? Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s widely seen as an admittance of culpability (or bad behavior) if not outright ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Our Constitution and amendments are the supreme law of America. The ...

Annie Tomasini on Friday became the third Biden administration official to plead the Fifth Amendment in a House panel's investigation into former President Joe Biden's mental fitness and use of a ...

Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES: THE Fifth Amendment stands in need of defenders because of the motives for which it has been invoked on many occasions in recent times. This may have given a ...

Hunter Biden may no longer have the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent if called to testify under oath for his actions over the past 11 years after President Joe Biden pardoned the first son, ...

In In re Taylor Brock Peters this year, the Texas Supreme Court considered the tension between the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the discovery needs of litigants in civil lawsuits. In ...

Believe it or not, congressional Republicans are still investigating Joe Biden — evidently, the former president continues to be old — including a House Oversight Committee interview this week with ...

here is a familiar pattern that haunts this republic: We take a step toward the future, yet the shadows of the past keep tugging at our coattails. It feels like renovating an old house, repainting the ...

What Ivanka Trump could say or not say if called as a witness against her father and brothers may add some weight to the state's civil fraud case while potentially implicating herself. Last week, her ...