Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

President Donald Trump has challenged our system of checks and balances. He shows little appreciation for Congress and the ...

At an NYU Law Forum on October 22, former government officials and constitutional law scholars examined the current state of ...

The president can do this or that, but the courts and Congress can put a stop to it, depending on the circumstances and relevant rules.

The GOP in Congress nullified the legislative branch this year by failing to stand up to the president’s actions, even when those ran counter to the Constitution, such as his decisions to cancel ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court and its carefully manufactured conservative majority will hear the first in a chain of cases that may well determine for the foreseeable future the survival of the ...

During 35 years with the Department of Justice, I helped investigate and prosecute murderers, mobsters, gang members, drug dealers, white collar criminals, and corrupt public officials and law ...