In reality, however, the legislative branch has ceded much power to the executive branch in recent years, as polarization has led to more party-line votes and greater gridlock.

The Fourth Branch’s Power Source Many agencies get their power from Congress. For example, out of a law to “protect clean air,” power is given to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ...

If President Donald Trump has wielded his executive power like a Mack Truck over the last months, plowing ahead with a velocity unseen in his recent predecessors, his win at the Supreme Court on ...

Supreme Court rulings could be ignored by the executive branch, and Congress would be unable to enforce its subpoenas and laws. “Trump will have crowned himself king,” Reich concluded.

To Vance, checking the power of the executive is "one-half of" Roberts' job. "The other half of his job is to check the excesses of his own branch," the vice president said.

When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.” Trump is the immediate victor here.

The court tied the hands of judges at a time when Congress has been cowed and internal executive branch constraints have been steamrolled. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage has been writing about ...

Stephen Miller slams CNN anchor's 'lazy assumptions' about Trump admin's executive power. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called out CNN's Pamela Brown on Friday for making "lazy ...

Reconciliation Provision Would Let Executive Branch Dismantle Nonprofits Under Pretext of Fighting Terrorism. The House’s tax portion of the reconciliation bill would give unprecedented power to ...

A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16, 2025 (El Salvador ...

Ms. Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Since taking his second oath of office, President Trump has been on a firing spree. In violation of ...