Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active-and it's been at the center of constitutional debates ever since.

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court nominee ...

Seditious behavior punishable by death. That's how President Trump responded to former military members and intelligence officials who are now current Congress members after they put out this video.

Prosecutors seeking to hold people they suspect cooperated in the Sept. 11 terrorist plots may turn anew to a very old weapon -- the Civil War-era law on sedition. Prosecutors have already cited the ...