The most recent vacancies act, passed in 1998, exempts several independent agencies from its provisions, meaning that, in ...

The federal judge presiding over a challenge to the Trump administration's pause on USAID spending, U.S. District Judge Amir ...

And his address to Congress showed it. But in the end, everything boils down to the character of "we the people" and the ...

In his first 6 weeks in office President Donald Trump has issued more executive orders than any other president in U.S.

Federal judges hearing Trump administration litigation have increasingly gone beyond the case at hand to reflect on potential ...

The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve ...

A Democratic member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, an independent administrative agency tasked with administering ...

Kentucky has what is known as a “hard” separation of powers in our state Constitution. We have three branches of government ...

If a house divided against itself cannot stand, then why would federal courts allow the United States to sue itself? It’s hard to imagine a scenario where a house could, or would, be more divided. Yet ...

The federal judge said the case was a “departure from the firmly established constitutional partnership” between the two branches of ... powers laid-out in the Constitution.

“We wouldn’t need a confirmations process — and that’s written into the Constitution ... its confirmation authority to the executive branch. Legislators have done so via a series ...

To date, more than two dozen lawsuits have been filed challenging the authority, power, goals, plans, initiatives, and ...