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Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders offered rare bipartisan support for an executive action this week by President ...

The Trump administration's actions in its first 100+ days have disrupted the balance of power among the three branches of government. The executive branch, under President Trump, has expanded its ...

HOUSTON, March 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the nation's foremost constitutional law scholars, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, will be the ...

‘DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS’ — Anti-abortion activists and their allies in government are hoping this is the year they finally take down Planned Parenthood by going after the federal funding ...

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And the G.O.P. controls all three branches of government. So the conflict that ... has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration. A chart shows expert ratings of U.S. democracy on a scale ...

The federal US government is divided into three branches – the legislative (the House and Senate), the executive (the presidency) and the judicial (the US Supreme court). While Trump may have had ...