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 ...

Americans do not think the president should have the ability to act unconstrained by the courts and Congress, according to new research on U.S. attitudes on checks and balances. But views on that ...

There was a time when Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to care about the U.S. Supreme Court’s integrity and the American people’s trust. That is evidently no longer the case. Last year, after ...

Donald Trump’s pushback on judges is challenging America’s system of checks and balances, critics say. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, federal judges have blocked Trump’s ban on transgender troops in ...

As courts continue to push back against President Trump and his policies, the White House is showing no intention of allowing the narrative about the administration's legal challenges to stay inside ...

Few Americans awoke July 1 with anticipation that the structure of our democracy as written in our Constitution would be altered by the Supreme Court. The court gave unlimited power to the president ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report that explores several ways Project 2025 proposes to gut America’s 250-year-old system of checks and balances in order ...

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. Checks and balances. I can’t count how many times I heard those words in the history and social ...