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 ...

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 ...

Facing a far-reaching probe into the inner workings of Joe Biden’s White House, a growing number of his top aides are invoking the Fifth Amendment, underscoring how fraught their legal predicament has ...

Former special counsel Jack Smith did not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during eight hours of testimony Wednesday behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s chairman said.

Anthony Bernal, a former top aide to Jill Biden invoked the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday, becoming the second Biden-affiliated individual to do so in the House Republicans' investigation into former ...