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.

We don’t have a democracy with checks and balances. We have a system that’s democratic-in-name-only and always susceptible to the whims of men and women who crave power more than they love ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...