The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and ...

The legal doctrine has its roots in a contract between President Abraham Lincoln and a spy for the Union during the Civil War ...

The Trump administration is invoking state secrets privilege to avoid giving a judge more information about last week's ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said the government provided “nothing of substance” about efforts to return the mistakenly ...

The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” in refusing to provide details demanded by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about ...

The invocation of the state secrets privilege escalates a standoff between Trump officials and U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg over Venezuelan deportations.

After the Nixon White House sued to stop The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, an editor wrote a memo ...