Trump v. Slaughter is among the most important tests to date of the Supreme Court’s view of the “unitary executive theory” – ...

Executive orders are presidential directives that guide how the executive branch carries out existing law. Since January 2025 ...

The firing of three judge advocates general last Friday is the latest step in Trump 2.0’s scheme to blunt executive branch legal obstacles to President Donald Trump’s will. The theory underlying this ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that only the president and attorney general can interpret the law. A Trump official just announced that Trump has signed an executive ...

Trump-appointed judges dissented as the 9th Circuit declined to order up a full panel rehearing of a discovery order the DOJ ...

The judicial branch acknowledged to its workforce on Thursday afternoon some of the impacts from Donald Trump’s executive orders and said that it was working to limit the effects. In internal memos ...

Since returning to office, President Trump has moved quickly to reshape the federal government. His actions, which have moved to put more power under his purview, align with a belief in some ...

In both cases, former President Donald J. Trump is claiming a novel power to keep White House information from his time in office secret from the Justice Department. By Charlie Savage and Glenn Thrush ...

The originalist case for a unitary executive falls apart in an era when many of the powers wielded by the executive branch were not originally supposed to be federal powers in the first place. If ...

The United States federal government, whether you feel it is a beacon of democracy or a symbol of modern political gridlock, was undeniably a revolutionary institution at its time of formation. Split ...

WASHINGTON—Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) is expected to introduce legislation Monday that would ban senior executive branch officials from owning or trading individual stocks, a push to toughen ...