Sovereign' captures an ever-growing disgust towards authority and a rejection of the old social contract we took for granted.

Chase Linde Allan, a 25-year-old Mormon from Utah, was killed by police March 1 in a traffic stop after allegedly reaching for a gun. Allan proclaimed to be a sovereign citizen — a movement that ...

"Sovereign" is based on the 2010 West Memphis traffic stop that led to the deaths of two police officers and two "sovereign ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which released an authoritative study on the movement in 2010, estimated that up to 300,000 U.S. citizens consider themselves sovereign citizens, with about ...

Sovereign citizens might seem eccentric, or even harmless. But those who look to engage in ‘pseudolaw’ can pose real risks.

But members of the Sovereign Citizen movement have been involved in acts of anti-government violence. In 2010, a father and son team of self-proclaimed Sovereign Citizens shot and killed two ...

On February 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation held a news conference about a growing problem faced by local law enforcement agencies. According to the FBI, police all around the country have ...

Patrick Hurst, 47, who allegedly claimed to be a “sovereign citizen” not bound by US laws, was killed in a shootout with Texas deputies after allegedly driving away from a traffic stop.

HOUSTON – A recent deadly shooting involving a “sovereign citizen” and Harris County deputies has many asking “What is a sovereign citizen and what rights do they have?”. In simple terms ...