Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our delicate system of checks and balances.

Our country was established 250 years ago by a revolt against the tyranny of a monarchy. Our Founding Fathers then crafted our Constitution, which determined how the new republic should be governed.

Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from ...

some supporters are questioning what actions – if any – can either members of Congress or the White House take to check the power of the courts. Trump's supporters have criticized so-called ...

I don’t want to live under emergency rule. I don’t want to live where my representatives cannot speak for me and have a check and balance on power.” The Senate voted 51-48 to cancel the ...

The overwhelming, mushrooming growth of presidential power in both foreign and domestic affairs, marked by executive ...

President Trump is ramping up his attacks on a federal judge at the center of a fight over deportation flights. This comes amid multiple legal setbacks for the administration. NBC News White House ...

Checks and balances are central to the United States ... hoping they will limit authoritarian overreach or abuse of power by President Trump. If we do not remedy this situation ourselves, the ...

In the Framers’ view, the way to contain the presidency and protect against the rise of a knave or a despot was to hedge and trim its authority at every turn and further restrain the exercise of its ...

Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from ...

The overwhelming, mushrooming growth of presidential power in both foreign and domestic ... begging for a spirited revival of checks and balances, of the sort envisioned by delegates to the ...