The Constitution created three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. For the past century, progressives in Congress have created a fourth branch composed of ...

Support for the unitary executive theory should require a President acting in good faith and with a sound moral compass. I would submit that the ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

This is bigger than one funding fight. It goes to the heart of our constitutional system. Checks and balances work only when the branches of government operate independently. The legislative branch is ...

Here is a helpful suggestion for President Donald Trump’s effort to reduce the federal workforce: Why not do away with the judicial and the legislative branches altogether? The executive has taken ...