executive branch

The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards designed to enforce it, creating a system answerable only to the White House.

The two determinations are mutually exclusive; it is legally impossible to maintain both simultaneously.

Congress and the public must do more to address the dangerous pressures imposed on servicemembers and defend the guardrails that protect both U.S. forces and democracy.

Tess Bridgeman is joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to assess the latest strikes, the brief detention of two survivors, where the campaign may be headed, and what…

The Trump administration's use of export controls as leverage in trade diplomacy creates risks for key U.S. national security interests.

Reasons for historical deference to the executive branch's judgement in matters of national security and foreign affairs have been severely undermined.

Military personnel are increasingly alert to the prospect that they may be asked to prioritize loyalty to an individual over their legal rights and responsibilities.

Tracking the use of State power requires systematically identifying linkages between individual developments and broader trends. This graphic offers one method.

The Trump administration’s “armed conflict” justification, however, is groundless.

Analysis of birthright citizenship statutory arguments now before the Supreme Court.

Analysis by former career judge advocate officer and former court-martial prosecutor.

The administration has turned consent decrees into a deregulatory weapon, and courts are beginning to confront the limits of that strategy.