By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

The 47th president says he’ll comply with court decisions. The seventh didn’t always do so.

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the “Corrupt Bargain” election of 1824. Challenges In Congress, “Whigs,” as ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.

Jackson’s first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Trump’s was by his five. But Jackson was the first and so far only president who determined his party’s presidential ...

But who could blame him? In the wake of former President Andrew Jackson's 1828 election victory over then sitting President John Quincy Adams, Rachel Jackson \-- his wife -- died of a heart attack.

North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections addresses a real problem that needs to be corrected. The solution does not ...

In an election year, Jackson understood the political clout this ... Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the most portrayed chief executives in history, ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...