Maine Senator Angus King says the Republican Party is allowing Donald Trump to have too much power. He says America was built ...

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.

President Donald Trump announced his decision to pause most of the tariffs he announced on “Liberation Day,” for a period of ...

Our beloved country teeters on the edge of autocracy. The checks and balances that are foundational to democracy are dismantled as President Trump declares himself the source of all federal law, ...

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.

I have an Article II,’ he once said, ‘where I have the right to do whatever I want.’ ...

Donald Trump's sweeping assertion of power since returning to the White House is testing the U.S. constitutional system of ...

The overwhelming, mushrooming growth of presidential power in both foreign and domestic affairs, marked by executive aggrandizement and legislative abdication, leaves students of the Constitution begg ...

Many of the firms first targeted are Democratic power centers, deeply embedded in the intersection of law and politics ...

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 ...

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 ...