President Donald Trump’s executive order grasping far greater control over independent federal agencies embraces a constitutionally questionable theory that presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan ...
Trump Tests the Courts
Nothing could have prepared Americans for what the first 50-ish days of the second Trump administration have been like. Even ...
As President Trump tests the traditional limits of presidential power, Georgetown University legal scholar and constitutional expert Stephen Vladeck discusses what's legal, what's unprecedented, and ...
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.
That authoritarian trope masquerading as a legal doctrine holds that literally everybody who works in the executive branch of government ... times before. We draw strength and guidance from ...
One section of Trump’s executive order appeared to encompass more than just independent agencies – and it was drawing considerable ... of law for the executive branch.” ...
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the US Treasury Department.
Both Trump and DeSantis favor the "unitary executive" theory, which grants significant power to the executive branch but which ... “I don’t draw any conclusions on whether what we’ve seen ...
One of President Trump’s early second-term executive ... an excuse to draw a paycheck while at best doing little, and at worst actively obstructing projects or executive branch policy decisions.