What is plenary authority? Does the president have plenary power? Here's what to know about the Insurrection Act and what was said.

Like every government shutdown, this one will end, with both parties claiming victory. Yet there is no victory when Congress cannot do its job and fund the government.

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment ...

Regardless of all the campaign jabber, Proposition 50 is not about saving democracy, stopping power grabs or veering off the moral high road. It’s about which political ...

In our constitutional system, Congress is meant to be the supreme branch of government and any claims of 'coequal' branches are Nixonian propaganda.

Congress must pass the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act, the Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act, the REINS Act, the Midnight Rules Relief Act, and the Reorganizing Government Act to restore ...

The court’s conservative majority has so far been receptive, at least in preliminary rulings, to many of President Donald Trump’s aggressive assertions of authority. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown ...

Proposition 50 also is opposed on idealistic grounds — particularly by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and wealthy GOP donor Charles Munger Jr. Both were strong backers of creating the independent ...

From tariffs to the 14th Amendment, the new Supreme Court term is full of cases that will determine whether President Trump’s expansive view of presidential power is constitutional.

The Trump administration has been seeking greater power over independent agencies. But if the president controls the FCC, will speech be free?

Vought has transformed a role typically focused on the weeds of congressional appropriations into Trump’s primary instrument to dismantle, piece-by-piece, federal agencies and spending plans.