The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block, for now, a lower court's decision that would require it to fully fund the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s ...

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.

Imagine the president having the power to unilaterally cancel any expenditure that has already been enacted into law. A Democratic president could wake up one morning and decide to cancel all border ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. But Republican lawmakers cheered when Trump launched an air offensive against Iran ...

The framers of the U.S. Constitution famously divided power among three branches of government so that, as James Madison explained in Federalist 51, the "constituent parts may, by their mutual ...

The Supreme Court will hear cases next week on the separation of powers and campaign expense limits. Justices will listen to arguments in Trump v. Slaughter and National Republican Senatorial ...

Congress expressly prohibited the secretary of education from “abolishing organizational entities established” in the department’s founding statute without following prescribed steps. Those actions ...