Learn how fiscal policy is shaped in the U.S., the roles of the President and Congress, and how these branches collaborate on ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, in which it will decide whether Congress may insulate the heads of certain executive agencies, in this case the Federal Trade ...

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As the Supreme Court prepares a landmark ruling about the scope of presidential power, the current president is acting more unleashed than any predecessor. He is demonstrating that a president not ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

An executive order is a written directive issued by the President to officers and agencies within the executive branch, instructing them on how to carry out existing law or exercise authorities ...