When Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, he cited authority under other laws, like the Trade Act of 1974 and the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. At one point he threatened to invoke the IEEPA to ...

Most states haven't modernized their constitutions to reflect the rise of women in politics. Among those that have are New York's, which became gender-neutral in 2001, and Vermont's, where voters ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

Talks on a spending bill for this budget year have bogged down amid President Trump’s efforts to slash federal spending and ...

Some are thrilled by the number of executive actions. Others see it as executive overreach. What is a U.S. president really ...

Some are thrilled by the number of executive actions taken by the president. Others see it as executive over-reach. What can ...

GOP senators will attend a private dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, the day after House Republicans had a marathon meeting in the White House to try to hash out a plan to get Trump's agenda ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt putting at least 2,200 employees at the U.S.

A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive ...

His bill intended to take action to “put power back in the people’s hands instead of the administrative state” ...

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But ...

The Department of Justice is suing Chicago, the state of Illinois and Cook County over sanctuary city policies.