This article is part of a series, called Civics & Civility, focused on explaining how government works and encouraging dialogue and understanding among Butler County residents. Greg Hayward ...

The executive order gives the president more power over federal agencies that are part of the executive branch of government.

President Trump’s second term has seen a significant shift towards executive overreach, with policies such as a federal ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday stating that only the 'President and the Attorney General ...

The president is positioning himself to have much greater control over a smaller, enfeebled federal bureaucracy.

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

A judge allowed the administration's mass layoffs to proceed, while a key appeals court ruling on the president's order to ...

What can and can't the president do — and how do we know? The framers of the U.S. Constitution left the powers of the ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has warned people ‘shouldn’t be taking a literal interpretation of every word’ US President Donald Trump says. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman “What he ...

Testing the limits of presidential power, Donald Trump this week tightened his grip on U.S. government agencies that for years have taken pride in their independence overseeing such matters as ...

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...