The three branches of government prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful and create a system of checks and balances ...

The House speaker doesn’t seem to care too much that there are supposed to be three equal branches of government.

Last week, recipients of USAID grants filed lawsuits in response. They say only Congress can decide to fund, or not to fund, ...

But their approach  — which one prominent Democrat characterized as ‘flagrantly violating the law’ — is drawing legal ...

After multiple years of enduring an executive with little checks on emergency power, Washington state finally seems ...

The DOJ is appealing a district court's order directing the government to "immediately" restore large swathes of federal ...

The American Bar Association (ABA) released a statement reaffirming its support for the rule of law Monday following a series of controversial executive orders from US President Donald Trump which ...

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal ...

In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show ...

Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary's authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president's sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts ...