Executive Branch

There can be no doubt now that the past four years contained arguably the most egregious cover-up in the history of American politics. The term “soft coup” is probably more appropriate than cover-up, as the latter implies insiders were…

The Trump administration hit the ground running in January, quickly executing a multitude of initiatives related to closing the border, deporting illegals, culling the federal bureaucracy, stopping the abuse of federal dollars to fund…

Donald Trump was never supposed to become president. When he miraculously did in 2016, the permanent Washington bureaucracy refitted the Hillary Clinton campaign’s smear that Trump was a Russian asset to handicap his presidency and hinder…

Since President Donald Trump reclaimed the executive branch in January, more than 50 lawsuits have been filed to halt his America-first efforts. These lawsuits present a variety of legal issues, from the constitutionality of Trump’s…

On March 5 in a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a lower-court order compelling the Trump administration to disburse nearly $2 billion in foreign subsidies through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the…

President Joe Biden infamously took a number of initiatives to thwart the success of President Donald Trump’s second administration. One such measure was to embed politically charged language into the policies of science-based agencies,…

Under the Constitution, “the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion.” For his decisions, “he is accountable only to his country in his political character, and…

Democrats claim we’re in a constitutional crisis because President Trump believes — and acts on the belief — that the executive should control the executive branch. It is a crisis their party has forced on Americans for the last 125 years.…

When President Donald Trump fired 17 inspectors general at the end of his first week in office, he exercised executive power that the Constitution vests in him alone. His opponents squawked predictably, and legal challenges to the firings…

Amid the hundreds of substantive executive actions President Donald Trump has taken in his first two weeks back in the White House, perhaps none matter more than his efforts at bureaucracy-busting. That notably includes what Julie Kelly…