Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active-and it's been at the center of constitutional debates ever since.

It’s an alarming accusation, and when it is made, it is often a serious danger to free expression. In many nations, including the U.S., the threat of sedition prosecutions has been used to criminalize ...

Prosecutors seeking to hold people they suspect cooperated in the Sept. 11 terrorist plots may turn anew to a very old weapon -- the Civil War-era law on sedition. Prosecutors have already cited the ...

Seditious behavior punishable by death. That's how President Trump responded to former military members and intelligence officials who are now current Congress members after they put out this video.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior," calling for their arrest and stating that what they did was "punishable by death." Trump's allegations ...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr can’t seem to get out of the headlines. Maybe he doesn’t want to. Just last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Barr suggested to federal prosecutors that ...

The Law Commission is considering the scope and ambit of the law on sedition, in order to ascertain under what circumstances it can legitimately be invoked, parliament was told on Wednesday. In a ...