Many presidents have stretched the limits of executive power. Today, Donald Trump is testing those boundaries again.

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President Donald Trump’s use of executive power has sparked a fierce debate among legal scholars: Is he dangerously overstepping his authority, or is he simply following a long-standing presidential ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s power to unilaterally impose far-reaching tariffs is coming before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a pivotal test of executive power with trillion-dollar ...

Presidents in 1800s expand wartime and veto powers: expansions of executive power in the 1800s under Presidents Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) Introduced ...

The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with which branch's powers independent executive agencies exert, as the justices weighed whether President Donald Trump may fire a Democrat-appointed Federal Trade ...

Miami University’s Armstrong Student Center Pavilion filled with students and faculty for this semester’s Janus Forum, which tackled one of the most pressing constitutional questions of our time: Has ...

The Cato Institute - where I am the Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies (in addition to my primary position at George Mason University) - is looking to hire a full-time executive power scholar. Here ...

India's federal structure is continually tested through disputes over policy implementation. A recent flashpoint is the language policy in schools, illustrated ...

For more than two centuries, presidents of both parties exercised wide executive latitude across war, trade, and immigration. The Constitution grants the president authority as commander-in-chief, and ...