Nothing could have prepared Americans for what the first 50-ish days of the second Trump administration have been like. Even ...
Alexander Hamilton saw it coming. In the Federalist Papers, he described the judiciary as a feeble branch of government, easily “overpowered, awed or influenced” by Congress and the president. Lacking ...
There is no doubt that the administration is determined to exercise the maximum possible power over the federal bureaucracy, and it may, if it hasn't already, overstep its bounds. Everything is being ...
What is of concern is the effort by Vice President J.D. Vance, a law school graduate, to undermine the fundamental constitutional principle that the executive branch must comply with a federal court ...
Donald Trump, however, seems to see Article II of the constitution, which lays out the president’s powers, as a blank cheque.
So much is new and topsy-turvy in our national politics, but one thing has endured — the commitment of the Democrats and the ...
A federal judge has refused to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs. U.S. Distr ...
I have seen breathless assertions lately in the national “media” that President Trump’s recent actions have sparked a ...
“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vice President JD Vance wrote Sunday ... After the New Deal-era Supreme Court overturned several of President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
Democrats control both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court has a progressive majority ... wouldn’t conservatives hope for judicial scrutiny? Yet Vice President J.D. Vance argued recently on X: ...
It’s unclear whether Trump would obey Supreme Court rulings against him, either. On the campaign trail, Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance said, “When the courts stop you, stand before the country like ...
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met in Munich, describing their discussions as ...