The Trump administration wants a judicial showdown over independent agencies. The history is muddled—and the consequences ...

Rep. Harriet Hageman stressed that the Constitution grants executive power solely to the president, not the courts. She ...

The most recent vacancies act, passed in 1998, exempts several independent agencies from its provisions, meaning that, in ...

Article II of the Constitution begins with a simple declarative sentence: “The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.” Those 15 words are at the heart of a key ...

In his first 6 weeks in office President Donald Trump has issued more executive orders than any other president in U.S.

As president Donald Trump tests the boundaries of the power of the presidency, law professors debated the merits of ...

The White House blasted the “absurd and unconstitutional” ruling of a federal judge who ordered that thousands of fired federal employees be reinstated in their jobs. “A […] ...

Donald Trump’s second presidency will take a novel path this week as he turns to Congress to enshrine part of his effort to ...

A federal judge on Wednesday questioned President Donald Trump's power to fire a Democratic member of the National Labor ...

"The theory that has been pressed … is basically saying Congress doesn’t even have the power to set some conditions on the ...

The retaliatory aim of the Order is intentionally obvious to the general public and the press because the very goal is to ...

At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, soon to undergo a major renovation, a heart-tugging special exhibit in Skokie explores the ...