The Justice Department lawyer told the court that the government could fire the daughter of former FBI director even for ...

The court should avoid the middle path of expanding executive power in theory while preserving favored exceptions in practice ...

The 2025-26 Supreme Court term’s first cases on presidential power are shaping up to be a study in contrasts. Last month, when the court heard oral arguments in Learning Resources v. Trump, President ...

Q: Why Do Presidents Seem More Powerful Today, than Historically? A. The powers of the presidency are written in the U.S. Constitution in Article II. Those provisions are unchanged, so in theory the ...

For nine months, in a flood of emergency orders, the Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to expand his power. The justices have permitted Trump to slash the federal bureaucracy, fire the ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be remembered for many things. He was arguably the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a paragon of conservatism. He was the architect of ...

Do President Donald Trump’s policies have staying power? Conventional Beltway wisdom would suggest no. But we are not in conventional times. It’s long been assumed that legislative actions have more ...

The recent presidential pardons of figures who tried to overturn the 2020 election are part of a broader effort to rewrite one of the most sordid episodes in recent memory. The effort should be ...

President Donald Trump pardons Butter, the national Thanksgiving turkey, in 2019at the White House in Washington, D.C., as first lady Melania Trump watches. The recent presidential pardons of figures ...