Here’s an irony that took over 700 years to see — British barons limited the power of a king, Americans rebelled against having a king centuries later, and in our times the U.S. Supreme Court sought ...

It was by sheer chance that I read an article by Linda Greenhouse, a former award-winning reporter on the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in the digital New York Times on ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of anything referred to as the “fourth branch of government”? It’s a term that can be used to mean any entity that has influence over government beyond the three branches described ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: It has been one month since President Donald Trump took the oath of office and was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. In that time, he has ...

The U.S. Constitution makes the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government co-equal, but Trump is overreaching his authority. Trump signed an executive order to restrict birthright ...

Josh Lerner is a coexecutive director of People Powered, a global hub for participatory democracy. Marjan Ehsassi is the executive director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy - North ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: "America cannot function if President Trump has to deal with co-equal branches of government having the ability to check his power." However, while ...