The House speaker doesn’t seem to care too much that there are supposed to be three equal branches of government.

The most serious forms of resistance to Trump's efforts to foreclose the normal functioning of government are coming from ...

The president’s lawyers argued that the distinction between civil servants and political appointees was unworkable and ...

Checks and balances are supposed to ward off a spoils system. Can the guardrails hold?

Angus King, the independent senator from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, posed this gut-punching query to his Republican ...

I interviewed the vice president last year, and he didn’t mince words about wanting to provoke a constitutional crisis ...

In his first three weeks, President Trump has pushed the government’s checks and balances designed to limit executive power.

President Donald Trump on Monday said that Palestinians would not be guaranteed a right of return to the Gaza Strip if the ...

"Who wouldn’t trade our current environment for 1870’s tariff-driven, be-candled, tuberculosis-laden, pre-industrial heyday?" ...

The American experiment depends on institutional checks on power’s exercise. If there are no checks, then these indeed will ...

How do constitutional democracies die? The Trump administration is following a well-worn pathway toward autocracy ...

New Jersey’s Indiscriminate Prosecution of Children as Adults,” reveals that prosecutors have near-total discretion to decide ...