The Trump administration wants a judicial showdown over independent agencies. The history is muddled—and the consequences ...

A smaller government with a more powerful set of unaccountable executive officials is unlikely to be much of a win for ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump is embracing a decades-old theory that could give him unprecedented control over the executive branch, setting up a showdown with Congress and the courts that some ...

Federal policy is being established via executive order from President Donald Trump, which has left Congress as a legislative body on the sidelines.

Washington — The federal government's personnel and budget offices issued a memo to the leaders of all executive branch agencies on Wednesday directing ... consolidate areas of the agency organization ...

Trump’s executive order provides the president with supervisory authority and control of the entire executive branch and requires all agencies to submit all significant regulatory actions of the ...

This provided an opportunity to understand the thought process of KVS Manian, former Kotak Mahindra Bank executive with 25 ... is well laid out. Future branch expansion will be carried out in ...

“The court effectively commanded the President and other Executive Branch officials to recognize and work with someone whom the President sought to remove from office,” the dissent sai ...

a president can order the federal government to take any steps that are within the scope of the constitutional authority of the executive branch and do not violate any federal law.

Accordingly, in the U.S., as in virtually all modern states, law is made and interpreted not only by the legislature and the courts, but also by a multitude of executive branch officials applying ...

That authoritarian trope masquerading as a legal doctrine holds that literally everybody who works in the executive branch of government serves at the pleasure of the president and can be hired ...

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