In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital to the preservation of liberty. Instead, the court seems to have been ...

As America prepares for its 250th birthday, it’s important to remember why we celebrate. The United States has a remarkable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s ...

Trump v. Slaughter, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in December, likely will put an end to the era of independent federal regulatory agencies. Even if the court does not formally overrule the ...

Does the president of the United States have the power to set tariff rates unilaterally on all goods and services imported from any and every country on the planet for an infinite amount of time ...

In Employment Division v. Smith, Justice Scalia identified the concept of hybrid rights: a restriction that targets two constitutional rights would be reviewed with heightened scrutiny. For example, a ...

BOSTON — Constitutional separation of power issues have been central to the dispute over Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s attempt to audit the Legislature, but now the auditor is the one raising concerns ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from replacing the US' top copyright official as the fight over executive branch firings and President Donald Trump's use of ...