Rule by perpetual emergency is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It allows leaders to bypass lawmakers while preserving a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, ...

Editor: We don’t necessarily have parties with hamburgers and hot dogs on Sept. 17, but we should make time to celebrate a momentous event. It was that day, 238 years ago, our Constitution was signed.

Federal courts have ruled that President Donald Trump did not have legal authority to impose his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs, nor his earlier tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump and his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital ...

One of the fundamental tenets of the rule of law is the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judiciary. Yet, because of our parliamentary system that we inherited from the ...

The Trump administration makes its case to have a Rhode Island judge's order overturned and for the president's federal funding freeze to be reinstated. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, ...

The author is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University Law School and former president of the Korean Constitutional Law Association. A series of bills being pushed by the ruling Democratic Party under ...

Does the president of the United States have the power to set tariff rates unilaterally on all goods and services imported from any and every country on the planet for an infinite amount of time ...

One of the most dangerous mistakes Americans are making right now is treating the threat to our democracy as a collection of daily outrages — the latest social media post, the latest threat, the ...