Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority authorized President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. In another shadow docket ruling that lacks legal precedent, ...

Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. | Richard Drew This separation of powers might ...

From day to day, Donald Trump’s second term often seems like a roman candle of grievance, with the administration spraying attacks in all directions on institutions and individuals the president ...

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The judiciary exists to interpret laws and ensure they comply with the Constitution. If the executive branch were to violate the constitutional rights of individuals—for example, by attempting to ...

The Nevada Supreme Court has a history of massaging the law to protect the state’s political elites — allowing lawmakers to ignore the two-thirds requirement for tax hikes, neutering term limits and ...

Last month I participated in a seminar on “Why the Separation of Powers Matters.” What fun, right? Separation of powers is a topic that you just know is important but, given how short life surely is, ...

Federal courts have ruled that President Donald Trump did not have legal authority to impose his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs, nor his earlier tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump and his ...

On Friday June 28, the Supreme Court issued their 6-3 ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning the deference to administrative agencies established in the Chevron v. Environmental ...

Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s founding statute without following prescribed steps. Those actions ...