Since returning to office, President Trump has made broad assertions of executive authority, including the power to fire ...

No pardons should be permitted in exchange for anything of value. Self-pardons should be barred. And pardons issued in ...

Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority ...

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 ...

Re “No President Should Have This Kind of Power” (editorial, Sept. 25): As this editorial notes, President Trump’s decision to blow up suspected drug-trafficking boats and kill suspected drug ...

The Supreme Court is poised to deliver a series of rulings this term that dramatically expand President Donald Trump’s powers. Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues will likely claim that they ...

In today’s edition … A key week for Ukraine … You tell us about your views on how Trump uses the pardon power … but first … A president’s most traditional pardon — the symbolic commutation of two ...

The Supreme Court has reviewed multiple separation of powers cases in recent years, often curbing the authority of the branch it sees as having exerted too much power. In 2023, the high court struck ...

Two pivotal justices—Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett—probed the implications of the challengers’ arguments about what the president can, and can’t, do in the arena of foreign trade. Both ...

While the ruling in Wilcox was merely a stay of the District Court’s order and did not reach the merits of the case, the question of whether NLRB officials can be removed without cause has persisted ...

In the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump reached deep into his arsenal to try to deliver votes to Republicans. Most of his weapons were rhetorical, featuring a mix ...