The role of the judiciary is to interpret laws and rule on matters of constitutionality—not to govern. When courts attempt to ...

It’s hardly an idle threat — Trump viciously attacked the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution in the New York hush ...

Republican lawmakers who are jubilant about President Trump’s flurry of executive orders and actions reshaping the government ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s ability to quickly deport noncitizens under Alien Enemies Act as he continues to forge ahead with his domestic and foreign policy agenda. Follow here ...

We have three branches of government. Legislative, which writes laws: executive, which executes and administers the laws through the departments; and judicial, which rules whether the laws and ...

While Trump has abolished other agencies by executive order, he can't end the Education Department on his own because ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s bills to fold the Department of Economic Development and the Department of Arts, Culture and History ...

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

Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s bills to fold the Department of Economic Development and the Department of Arts, Culture and History ...

President Trump has made large scale changes to the federal workforce even before receiving mass layoff plans from federal agencies due Thursday.

Humpty Dumpty is a metaphor for environmental regulation, put on the wall by the government, only to be knocked to the ground ...

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