The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

Presidential decrees have evolved into powerful tools that significantly impact American governance, shaping policy decisions ...

Trump’s executive orders and firings sparked lawsuits over presidential authority. Experts are saying he is renewing founding ...

Gavin Newsom, facing nationwide criticism after the devastating Los Angeles fires, on Thursday signed an executive order to ...

What do the Peace Corps, desegregation of the military, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II have in ...

Trump's order, backed by Musk, limits federal hiring and calls for workforce cuts, agency restructuring and efficiency improvements.

“An executive order is a way the president makes policy without Congress,” Dr. Potter said. “It is a written directive from the president to the executive branch workers, telling them how the ...

President Trump has signed more executive orders in his first couple of weeks as president than any recent president has in ...

It is too much to hope that one executive will change the constitutional awareness of the executive branch’s unelected actors. But change must begin somewhere.

No sooner did President Donald Trump resume his occupancy of the White House than he signed more than 200 executive orders in rapid succession. These directives radically shifted federal policies on ...

Let's talk [about] executive orders. What can and can't they do?

With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...