Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. | Richard Drew This separation of powers might ...

Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority authorized President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. In another shadow docket ruling that lacks legal precedent, ...

The judiciary exists to interpret laws and ensure they comply with the Constitution. If the executive branch were to violate the constitutional rights of individuals—for example, by attempting to ...

Jeffrey Schmitt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Federal courts have ruled that President Donald Trump did not have legal authority to impose his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs, nor his earlier tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump and his ...

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are direct, some are subtle and some are hidden. The chief instrument of ...

“I have a phone and a pen,” President Barack Obama said when Congress rejected his request for a change in immigration law. With his phone and his pen, Obama created temporary amnesty for the Dreamers ...

On Monday Dec. 1, the state Senate State Government Committee considered Senate Bill S4924, presented as an efficiency measure to consolidate investigative functions by transferring the ...

Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s founding statute without following prescribed steps. Those actions ...