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.

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 ...

In 2009, a newly inaugurated President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantánamo Bay, the U.S. base in Cuba that had become a symbol of the excesses and injustices of the war on ...

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 ...

Additionally, the order revokes all prior executive branch documents that established ... “The FEI has become a symbol of bureaucratic bloat, and its elimination will help refocus resources ...

Since returning to office, President Trump has moved quickly to reshape the federal government. His actions, which have moved to put more power under his purview, align with a belief in some ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Executive Orders are a privilege of the Executive Branch; and while this privilege is a protected constitutional right, it does not expand the power of the President of the ...

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 ...

Courts generally defer to the executive branch’s factual declarations and ... opera house on the border between Quebec and Vermont, a symbol of binational friendship. Now U.S. officials are ...

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).

While the vice president, along with the chief justice of the United States, is a member of the board by law, the executive branch does not have authority over the institution. Six members of its ...