Presidential power can be dangerous.” Led by Boston trial attorney James St. Clair, Nixon’s legal team cooked up a theory ...

Yet Trump’s critics continue to argue that the intense volume of his executive orders amounts to, at the very least, an “overreach,” and, at worst, an unconstitutional abuse of power.

As the 100-day mark of President Donald Trump‘s second term approaches, his power struggles with the courts over executive authority have emerged as a defining feature of his presidency.

Dhankhar also said that while the government is accountable to the Parliament and the people of India, if the Judiciary takes up executive powers, who will hold it accountable. “When the ...

WMAL host Vince Coglianese read the Logan Act statute ... "Because this is what they accused General [Michael] Flynn of doing … the incoming national security advisor … who was merely having ...

Judy Gold, Tom Rogers, Sean Patrick Maloney, and Marc Dunkelman join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss Trump's pressure campaign on universities, courts, global trading partners and news organizations ...

US President Donald Trump has picked people for his administration who are “on board with this radical new theory of executive power”, says Elizabeth Goitein, of the Brennan Centre.

authority sparingly in recent years—primarily in response to extreme weather events in discrete geographical areas—the executive order seeks a broader application of these emergency powers.

Wisconsin gives its governors some of the most sweeping executive powers in the country, although partial veto authority has been scaled back over time. The Republican-led state Senate voted in ...

A decision in the emergency appeal could enable Trump to assert control over independent agencies as he tries to subsume their power within the executive branch – or it could significantly slow ...

Using executive orders and mass firings, he has moved quickly on his far-reaching agenda to consolidate his power. Trump has actually signed fewer bills into law at this point than any new ...