Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s ...

Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. | Richard Drew This separation of powers might ...

Imagine the president having the power to unilaterally cancel any expenditure that has already been enacted into law. A Democratic president could wake up one morning and decide to cancel all border ...

President Donald Trump has unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the authority to impose tariffs is nowhere to be found in Article II of the Constitution, which is where the limited ...

Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.

The judiciary exists to interpret laws and ensure they comply with the Constitution. If the executive branch were to violate the constitutional rights of individuals—for example, by attempting to ...

The Nevada Supreme Court has a history of massaging the law to protect the state’s political elites — allowing lawmakers to ignore the two-thirds requirement for tax hikes, neutering term limits and ...

Federal courts have ruled that President Donald Trump did not have legal authority to impose his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs, nor his earlier tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump and his ...

Based on the Constitution’s separation of powers U.S. Distict Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York should deny the Justice Department's motion to drop its own case against New York City ...

The exclusive authority of the New Jersey Supreme Court under our Constitution to regulate the bar acts as a special bulwark of protection against potential intrusions upon our collective professional ...

Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s founding statute without following prescribed steps. Those actions ...

Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority authorized President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. In another shadow docket ruling that lacks legal precedent, ...