So, if only Congress can impose taxes, how can the president impose tariffs? Here is the backstory. However one characterizes ...

The 14th Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate in 1866 and ratified two years later by 28 of the 37 states at that time, ...

Let’s call it what it is: a constitutional collapse. Congress’s abdication of its constitutional powers and responsibilities to an executive branch run amok — or, you might say, run-a-Musk — would ...

The United States government maintained an absolutely consistent if remarkably frustrating approach to running the nation for ...

Last week, recipients of USAID grants filed lawsuits in response. They say only Congress can decide to fund, or not to fund, ...

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

The question asserts itself as he starts, however understandable his reasons, moving against departments that Congress ...

This lawsuit comes shortly after Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a freeze on federal funding to sanctuary cities the same day she was sworn in.

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Following Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, several Republicans ...