Our founding fathers designed checks and balances to prevent any one branch from overpowering the others. Many point out President Trump campaigned, won and is now delivering on his promises.

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution's design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.

The overwhelming conclusion of many scholars during this second Trump administration is that our country’s vaunted ...

Checks and balances facilitate this separation of powers – limiting the power of each individual agency and granting each branch the authority to restrict the other two.

For example, in death penalty cases, the judicial branch has frequently acted as the last safeguard against wrongful execution. Consider the 2019 case of Rodney Reed in Texas.

When asked about the functioning of “the system of checks and balances between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government,” 54 percent of registered voters in ...

This week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our delicate system of checks and balances. He made these comments, not ...