As the balance of power in the federal government continues to shift toward the executive branch, the actions, or inactions, of the president himself can have a sharp impact on the country.

Other agencies get their power from the executive branch. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is part of the executive branch, with duties to prepare the federal budget and oversee agency ...

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.

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 ...

The administration has steamrolled internal executive branch checks, including firing inspectors general and sidelining the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which traditionally set ...

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.

Congressional Democrats introduced a bill Thursday that would shift control of the U.S. Marshals Service from the executive branch to the federal judiciary, in an effort to insulate the agency ...

The Supreme Court on Friday limited the ability of lower-court judges to block executive branch policies nationwide, opening the door for a majority of states to at least temporarily enforce ...