WASHINGTON — House Republicans are weighing calling former first lady Jill Biden and other family members of former President Joe Biden to answer questions about his cognitive decline while in office ...

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden's White House physician invoked his Fifth Amendment right as he refused to answer questions during a closed-door deposition in the Republican-led House Oversight Committee's ...

The US House Oversight Committee’s renewed probe into the Epstein Files stalled on Monday after Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer ...

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 ...

Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former President Joe Biden’s doctor, exits the Rayburn House Office Building on July 9, 2025 (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner. “The pending Department of Justice criminal ...

The New York Times is suing the Department of War over its new policy that bars journalists from entering the Pentagon for not adhering to its newsgathering terms. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U ...

Former White House physician Kevin O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment multiple times during his closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. “I’m going to read the first ...

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

Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a virtual deposition with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday that aimed to get more details on how her accomplice, dead ...

"It is well-established that a party's invocation of the Fifth Amendment in a civil or administrative proceeding may form the basis of an adverse factual inference," Acting Justice O. Peter Sherwood ...

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.