President Donald Trump has challenged our system of checks and balances. He shows little appreciation for Congress and the ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] ...

We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.

During Donald Trump's second presidency, many of his critics, both left and right, are warning that he is failing to respect ...

The Constitution created three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. For the past century, progressives in Congress have created a fourth branch composed of ...

South Dakota voters have low confidence in the U.S. presidency and Congress but high confidence in state government.

Following months of contention between the White House, the Department of Government Efficiency and certain members of Congress over whether the executive branch will spend federal funding how ...

Two conservative organizations are suing the United States government on behalf of Texas farming associations for giving too ...

Government contractors, health-related groups and the medical marijuana industry were among hundreds of organizations that ...

My career in public service began during college as a part-time Postal Service employee under the Johnson administration and concluded decades later as a political appointee at the end of the Obama ...