Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than two centuries, presidents of both parties exercised wide executive latitude across war, trade, and immigration. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Associate Justice Elena Kagan, left, and Chief Justice John Roberts. - Getty Images/Reuters Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice ...

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 ...

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 basic facts of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld President Franklin Roosevelt's wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, are well-known but still ...

One year ago today, we started Executive Functions. It has been a rewarding journey. We are grateful for our readership. In our first post, we wrote: “President Trump’s pledges to cast aside many ...

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 ...

Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

The DOJ will argue that lower courts are undermining the federal government’s ability to manage the southern border in a ...

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 ...