executive power

President Donald Trump and the courts are in a turf war over the reach of executive and judicial powers. The conflict results from a barrage of nationwide injunctions issued against the Trump administration by left-leaning judges on matters…

President Donald Trump made headlines this week by continuing deportation flights of illegal immigrants, including members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, despite a federal judge’s ruling that attempted to halt the practice. U.S.…

The battlefield for the new lawfare against President Donald Trump was quickly shaped when, within hours of the president’s March 15 executive order deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members, ACLU lawyers sympathetic to their plight filed a…

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…

An “Appeal to Congress” from five former secretaries of defense warns that Donald Trump is firing flag officers, which is unprecedented and an assault on American political norms. This letter is an appalling package of dangerous claims and…

The radical Democrats have chosen their strategy to fight the reforms that voters demanded last November: the continued use of the judiciary to wage political lawfare against President Donald Trump and his administration. They often do so…

Democrats’ histrionics over President Donald Trump’s use of executive power conflicts with their history. Numerous Democrat presidents have done as much, or more, than Trump is doing now. Amid Democrats’ histrionics, history, and hypocrisy,…

The opening sentence of Article II of the U.S. Constitution is straightforward and grants one person, the president, broad powers: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Nineteen…

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…

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…