President Donald Trump arrives for the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday. (Pete Kiehart for The Washington ...

We’re covering an imbalance of power in the government. In the United States, Congress, the president and the courts are supposed to keep an eye on one another — to stop any one branch of government ...

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But ...

American law has been shaped by a long history of bias against gender nonconformity. Understanding this legal history can ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have upended the federal workforce, firing top officials, grinding billion-dollar ...

While it was once rare for an administration to change its position in cases before the high court, Trump did so in his first ...

As the clock ticks down toward a Feb. 21 deadline set by a Michigan Supreme Court ruling to implement ballot initiative reforms on the state’s minimum wage and earned sick time laws, hearings got ...

The hearing comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the order Thursday and decried what he described as the ...

Given Republican control of Congress, the confirmation of Trump ultra-loyalist Pamela Bondi as his attorney general and the ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with ...

President Donald Trump has faced several setbacks from federal courts, which have blocked or paused some of his most ...