The Republican majority has let Trump do pretty much anything he wants—even when it tramples on Congress’s authority.

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

President Donald Trump’s second term is testing the boundaries of Article II executive power like no presidency before. Through sweeping legal battles over federal firings, immigration crackdowns, ...

President Trump has pushed to expand the power of the chief executive to new heights throughout 2025, setting up legal battles carrying into next year. Trump has pushed to consolidate executive power ...

Public expectations of presidents often exceed their formal powers, leading them to stretch executive authority. Trump, like other presidents, uses constitutional, statutory, and emergency powers to ...

President Donald Trump issued more executive orders than any previous president during his first 100 days in office. Trump has issued 145 executive orders through April. While this is a record number ...

The Republican-controlled House and Senate have not done much to stand in the way of President Trump, even when his actions have encroached on terrain that the Constitution reserves for them. But as ...

Steve Adubato welcomes Elie Honig, author of "When You Come at the King," CNN Senior Legal Analyst, and Former Federal and State Prosecutor, to explore the history of the U.S. Office of Special ...