The U.S. Constitution divides the government authority between the three branches of the government: legislative, executive and judicial. The legislative branch has the power of the purse: “Article I, ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene offered this opening statement as she chaired the first hearing of the House DOGE Committee: REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: This hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on ...

The lawsuit filed last week to halt the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Without an independent judiciary, the Constitution would be no match for Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses.

Republican legislative leaders and the governor crafted a sweeping new proposal behind closed doors that aims to help ...

Alan Charles Raul served as associate White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan and as general counsel of the Office ...

The comments by the speaker were his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch, and in keeping with his move ...

Legal expert Richard W. Painter warns that Elon Musk’s unchecked power in the Trump administration poses a historic threat to democracy. As Musk exerts influence over government agencies without Senat ...

Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, a legislator “shall,” according to Article III of the Montana Constitution, solemnly swear to faithfully support, protect and defend the ...

Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities and a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Submit a letter, ...

If the Republican Party is abdicating its responsibility as one of the co-equal branches of government; if they are ...

After multiple years of enduring an executive with little checks on emergency power, Washington state finally seems ...