What are the purposes of government? From a lofty perspective, Lincoln said America had created a government, “of the people, ...

The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?

The Trump administration’s encirclement of the Constitution, laid bare in federal court findings that President Trump has ...

Bryan Newland , who served as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2021 to January 2025, has joined Washington, D.C.-based law firm Powers Pyles Sutter & ...

Merely a string of judicial setbacks or "Resistance" from the bench? On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered ...

The Trump administration wants a judicial showdown over independent agencies. The history is muddled—and the consequences ...

The president's handpicked board made him chair of the Kennedy Center. He says he’ll make it “hot.” Cue the Village People.

Opinion: The crucial first step in righting the Ship of State, created and empowered solely by the Constitution is an ...

Regardless of the ideological makeup of courts, an arguably bigger challenge is speed. The Trump administration is moving ...

It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats and a Civil War before the English Constitution secured for Parliament the appropriations power – the power of the purse w ...

"Among their chief purposes, the American colonists fought a revolution, and the Framers drafted the Constitution, to protect what Madison called the 'sacred' principle of congressional power over the ...

It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats and a Civil War before the English Constitution secured for Parliament ...