President Donald Trump has challenged our system of checks and balances. He shows little appreciation for Congress and the ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

At an NYU Law Forum on October 22, former government officials and constitutional law scholars examined the current state of ...

WASHINGTON – American democracy hinges on the idea that each branch of government prevents the others from taking too much power. Trump has demanded Republicans in the U.S. Senate agree to "recess ...

Amid a looming administration showdown with the Supreme Court over the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, Americans should remember that litigation on ...

ATLANTA (AP) — It’s what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that’s been fundamental to American democracy for more than two centuries. Supreme Court issues emergency order ...

In our political system, checks and balances are the mechanisms that equitably distribute power. Checks and balances prevent any one institution or individual from exercising too much independent ...

President Trump has sought to deliver on his promise to streamline government by cutting more than 200,000 federal jobs since taking office for his second term, but with 174 pending lawsuits against ...

ATLANTA (AP) — It’s what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that’s been fundamental to American democracy for more than two centuries. The principle of “checks and balances” is ...