It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
“Oopsie … Too late,” El Salvador’s president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights to his country turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him.
The party’s split over supporting a spending extension to avert a lapse in government funding boiled down to a practical question of how much power the president has in a shutdown.
On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House.
Taken as a whole, the rulings represent an effort to thwart President Trump’s serial attempts to increase his power and the executive branch’s dominion over the government.
The real legacy of the case, scholars say, is not its protection of former presidents from prosecution but its expansive understanding of presidential power.
She was the only member of the court appointed by the president to vote against his emergency request to freeze foreign aid.
The lack of transparency surrounding the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is emerging as a target in the courts.
Tucked away near the White House is a tribute to the environmental agency and its history — for the time being, anyway.
At the Justice Department and the Pentagon, the administration is curtailing the ability of lawyers to raise internal objections to the president’s use of power.
The Justice Department said a law protecting the officials from arbitrary removal is an unconstitutional intrusion on presidential authority.