Recently, the US government went into a shutdown as the ruling Republicans couldn't muster enough votes in the Senate. The ...

Opinion: New York State Bar Association President Kathleen Sweet says the Trump administration’s installation of US Attorneys ...

Opinion: Trump’s trampling of the Constitution is largely attributable to the demise of checks and balances, seen by the ...

The White House has operated a unified government since President Donald Trump’s January inauguration. With Republican majorities in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and ...

Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.

The Kansas Legislature overrode a record number of Governor Kelly's vetoes in the 2025 session, raising concerns about the balance of power. The legislative supermajority's ability to override vetoes ...

WASHINGTON – American democracy hinges on the idea that each branch of government prevents the others from taking too much power. Trump has demanded Republicans in the U.S. Senate agree to "recess ...

A system of checks and balances has been critical to the success of the United States Government for 250 years. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison stated, and thus the ...

What is plenary authority, the phrase that caused Stephen Miller to freeze up during CNN interview? - Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before s ...

To those of us who have taken liberal democratic values for granted like air, President Lee Jae-myung’s unfamiliar constitutional perception came as a sudden and disconcerting shock. At last week’s ...

(TNND) — Most Americans think it’s "too risky" to give presidents more power, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. The poll, conducted Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, found that 65% of people ...