The Founding Fathers established a government with three separate, but equal, branches: the executive, the legislative and the judicial. When one branch overwhelms another, those cherished checks and ...

A system of checks and balances has been critical to the success of the United States Government for 250 years. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison stated, and thus the ...

President Donald Trump has unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the authority to impose tariffs is nowhere to be found in Article II of the Constitution, which is where the limited ...

Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s founding statute without following prescribed steps. Those actions ...

In mid-May, the Department of Government Efficiency — which was established by an executive order, does not have the statutory authority of a government department or agency, is not funded by Congress ...

DENVER — Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended separation of powers at a Texas event while facing criticism for the Supreme ...

Justice Elena Kagan accused Monday the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of usurping Congress’s power and dismantling the separation of powers — warning that in Trump v. Slaughter, the Court is ...