In leaping to defend the Trump Administration, the Court conveniently ignored a long-established precedent that prevented Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will.

Trump’s use of the executive order mirrors Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed an average of 307 orders a year during his more than 12 years in office. However, FDR also worked with Congress to ...

Stacey Carter spent 20 years researching the Hunters Point shipyard. She believed nobody cared about the shipyard until five ...

Federal agencies are typically divided into executive agencies, over which the President has complete control, and independent agencies, over which the President has limited control.

In April, Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum ordering senior members of his administration to investigate Miles Taylor, the author of an anonymous 2018 op-ed in the New York Times that ...

In 1941, President Roosevelt signed the groundbreaking Executive Order 8802. This legal instrument prohibited racial, religious and ethnic discrimination in the nations defense industry.

The debate consists adherents of the president's nuclear power executive orders and those who are more skeptical.

Details on Trump's targeting of law firms 03:14. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order targeting D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale, declaring ...

A (relatively) short excerpt from today's long decision by Judge Richard Leon (D.D.C.) in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP v. Executive Office of the President; there's a lot going on here ...

A federal judge Friday issued a second preliminary injunction blocking some provisions of the sweeping executive order on ...

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year targeting the elite law firm WilmerHale, becoming the latest jurist to permanently ...