Politics

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday said that even "handheld rocket launchers" could be considered legal under his interpretation of the Constitution's Second Amendment.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would "respect" and back Israel if they decided to attack Iran to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons, the candidate's campaign said on Sunday.

A new video updates a classic Schoolhouse Rock concept to explain the basics behind the American Legislative Exchange Council controversy.

Friday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," guest host Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to glean a greater truth from all of the hullaballoo over Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)'s disastrous trip to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She compared and contrasted Romney's trip abroad with then-Senator Barack Obama's trip overseas in the summer of 2008, which, as Harris-Perry said, many foreign statesmen treated Obama as a "president-in-waiting" and audiences treated him like a rock star.

Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade is telling the British people to "back off" GOP hopeful Mitt Romney after a series of gaffes by the candidate outraged the country.

Following a bad few days in the United Kingdom for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, his wife, Ann, did a little bit of pandering by volunteering that she and her husband adored Downton Abbey, a British television drama that glorifies the class system.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Friday refused to condemn Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) suggestion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin, had infiltrated the U.S. government on behalf of radical Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said no new gun control laws were necessary after the massacre in Aurora, Colorado because Timothy McVeigh killed 168 in Oklahoma City with a bomb made of fertilizer -- but in that case, Congress did eventually regulate the sale of ammonium nitrate.

Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday joked that it might be best for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney if he didn't say anything during his overseas tour.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday disclosed that he had a meeting with the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, an admission that was seen as a gaffe in the United Kingdom.

London Mayor Boris Johnson shamed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in front of a crowd of 100,000 people at the Olympic torch lighting on Thursday.

Fox News co-host Bob Beckel apologized on Thursday after he said that presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a "punk" who had the "personality of a Ken doll."

A Republican candidate for supervisor in Pinal County, Arizona has with withdrawn following allegations that his former companion continued to cast absentee ballots five years after her death.