WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary executive" theory that envisions vast executive ...

A New York Times reporter sparked controversy this week after suggesting in an article that President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, Russell T. Vough, helped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The media’s takeaways from the December oral arguments in the Trump Justice Department’s bid to the Supreme Court to invalidate ...

We have the larger story behind a seemingly small news item. The Supreme Court this month let President Trump fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission - at least for now. The court ...

The restoration of a constitutional presidency requires repudiation of the ill-conceived unitary executive theory. Untethered to anything said or done in the Constitutional Convention and the various ...

Since April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted President Trump emergency relief no fewer than 13 times. It has temporarily blocked lower-court orders that, for example, halted aggressive ...

While former President Barack Obama sometimes invoked Article II executive power in controversial ways, those moves are nowhere near the level of President Donald Trump's raw assertion of presidential ...