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.

leaves students of the Constitution begging for a spirited revival of checks and balances, of the sort envisioned by ...

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 ...

But Congress mostly doesn’t want to do its job. Instead of acting like a branch of government, it’s largely content cheering on whatever the executive branch is doing. Which is how America ...

From deportation defiance to unchecked presidents, this op-ed unpacks how America’s legal system struggles to hold the most ...

The media has done their part to highlight this heartbreaking and unjust situation. The judicial branch has done their part in blocking this cruel executive order. Average citizens have done their ...

Our country faces a constitutional crisis that should alarm every American. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has ...

The checks and balances that are foundational to democracy are dismantled ... Trump also purged the leadership of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for all three branches of the military, lawyers who ...

It's just one of the several examples of how Trump is picking favored political issues to test the U.S. system of checks and balances ... having with the judicial branch help him more than ...

Florida lifestyle jeopardized as state lawmakers try to tie hands of local elected officials on growth, limit protections in ...