The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse and oversight over military actions, but recent actions by the White ...

President Trump's expansive interpretation of executive power is continuing to reshape federal spending in a government shutdown.

A group of protesters march at the U.S. Capitol Building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) Fresh off its summer recess, Congress faces its biggest test in ...

Trump isn’t the first to overreach, and there’s bipartisan support for reform.

This hasn’t been a good year for congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding it had previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

For the second time, Donald Trump’s worldwide 10 percent tariff and retaliatory “liberation day” tariffs have been found illegal by the courts. Trump has lost a lot of lower-court cases in the past ...

When the Trump administration decides it can spend money from any budget account on anything it wants and not spend ...

They argue that if lawmakers fail to vote in favor of a veto-proof joint resolution overturning the emergency, Trump’s ...

Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the ...

When our Founders drafted the Constitution, they intended that Congress would keep the judiciary as the “least powerful” branch of government and see to it that judges “should be bound down by strict ...

Whatever you think about American politics and government, whether you are on the right, the left or somewhere in the middle, you should be mad at Congress. I don’t just mean the Republican-controlled ...

Fresh off its summer recess, Congress faces its biggest test in decades. Unlike big legislative fights of the past, this one could pass by without a notice. But the next few months will determine ...