In an unprecedented flexing of the power of the executive branch, unelected billionaire Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S.

In his first week in office, President Trump displayed an unusually expansive vision of executive authority. He challenged ...

Public-policy expert Don Kettl discusses Trump and Musk’s blitzkrieg attack on the federal workforce, and where it goes next.

A flurry of seemingly illegal orders and firings could tee up the Supreme Court to cement a vast expansion of Presidential ...

Immigration legislation intended to grant new power to states to block visas for foreign nationals is likely unconstitutional ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of 18 inspectors general explicitly violates a law passed by Congress to protect these anti-corruption watchdogs from removal by a corrupt president. Believe it or not, ...

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal ...

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, "It's all about common sense." ...

The lawmakers said that Congress did not receive the 30-day notice or the reason for the IG’s removals which took place at over a dozen agencies.

As Trump careens to autocracy, local officials must show they can solve problems. In troubled times, Washington can become a ...

Executive branch employees have been ordered to cut gender pronouns out of their email signatures, memos obtained by ABC News ...