And despite coming into office with such power vested in the executive, President Donald Trump has overseen an aggressive effort to slash his own branch, to the relief of conservatives in Congress.

The judiciary exists to interpret laws and ensure they comply with the Constitution. If the executive branch were to violate the constitutional rights of individuals—for example, by attempting ...

Trump’s approach signals that power has been diverted away from Congress and that the executive branch is assuming increased lawmaking authority — a trend that will likely continue into future ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has sent out a second mass e-mail to executive branch employees requiring them to list their weekly accomplishments by midnight Monday — but ...

Orders sometimes echo Trump’s standard slogans, whether putting America ... The president is not just the head of the executive branch but also the sole interpreter of law and the lone ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump is embracing a decades-old theory that could give him unprecedented control over the executive branch, setting up a showdown with Congress and the courts that ...

Sharece Thrower, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University who studies the executive branch, said recent U.S. presidents had been more circumspect of legal boundaries when issuing ...

Roberts warned that, without the power to remove executive-branch officers, “the President could not be held fully accountable for discharging his own responsibilities; the buck would stop somewhere ...

President Trump’s declaration of national emergencies and seizure of emergency powers should worry all Americans (“Executive-Branch Power Should Be Curbed, Poll Says,” U.S. News, April 5).

Trump’s moves are the culmination of a decades-long conservative movement to expand the power of the executive branch after it was significantly curtailed in the wake of Watergate. But many ...

He got elected to lower prices when he's been obsessed with gaining more power at the executive branch and crashing our economy," said Chuck Rocha, a CBS News political contributor and former ...