A convicted heroin trafficker’s appeal could upend one of the federal government’s most-used gun laws after a federal appeals court agreed to reconsider its constitutional foundation, weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas urged lower courts to take a fresh look at whether Congress had the authority to enact it. The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire, a case that could determine...

The late Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said to me once that “we don’t do a lot in Congress. But when we do it, we do it all at once.” That is kind of where we find the House of Representatives today. Today is the penultimate day in the House before the August recess. In fact, the House may not be here much at all until after the election....

The vendor that Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill blamed for a “software error” leading to illegal voting in the Garden State denies wrongdoing and is instead pointing its finger back at the state. IDEMIA is a French multinational company that provides identity-related security services. Sherrill appeared to divert any government blame for 6,600 noncitizens being added to the voter roll onto the software company used by the...