Trump is likely to succeed in expanding presidential powers on some fronts because the Constitution generally puts vast power ...

An immigrant rights group is suing the Trump Administration over his proposed asylum shutdown at the U.S.-Mexico border, ...

With an aggressive reading of the Constitution, the president aims to upend the balance of power in Washington.

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal ...

Several actions by President Donald Trump freeze federal funds that Congress has already approved. Can he do that?

During his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, effectively gutting birthright ...

President Donald Trump’s dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the ...

The Tennessean’s proposed 28th Amendment would bar the president from pardoning himself, his close relatives (and their ...

Legal experts tell ABC News that the sheer number of presidential executive orders is unprecedented but whether or not they ...

Legal experts predict litigation may lead to the overturning of a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protects members of ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

These tests of presidential powers may ultimately reach the Supreme Court, particularly if Trump's lawyers file emergency appeals to challenge any judges who block his orders.