A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a post-Civil War amnesty law doesn’t protect future insurrectionists, a legal victory for the liberal activists who have tried to disqualify Republican ...

Adding salt to the wound of U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn's recent primary election loss, an federal appeals court found a Civil War-era amnesty law should not protect candidates from a constitutional ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Tuesday ruled that post-Civil War amnesty laws do not protect members of Congress who voiced support for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

A lawyer for Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) cited an 1872 congressional action granting amnesty to Confederate soldiers to defend his own client’s eligibility for office. The argument from Cawthorn ...

The Supreme Court in El Salvador has declared unconstitutional an amnesty law that protected perpetrators of crimes committed during the country's 1980-1992 civil war. The decision, announced ...

Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, in what the United Nations chief called a “terrible escalation” in the conflict.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a post-Civil War amnesty law doesn't protect future insurrectionists, a legal victory for the liberal activists who have tried to disqualify Republican ...