One of the most dangerous mistakes Americans are making right now is treating the threat to our democracy as a collection of daily outrages - the latest social media post, the latest threat, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital ...

Trump v. Slaughter, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in December, likely will put an end to the era of independent federal regulatory agencies. Even if the court does not formally overrule the ...

Constitutional separation of power issues have been central to the dispute over Diana DiZoglio’s attempt to audit the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Supreme Court Police stand behind security barriers in front of the Court building, on the first day of the Court’s new term, ...

Opinion: The US Supreme Court would likely rule against the government on its reduction-in-force appeals rule in a hypothetical case, given legislative history and the court's approaches to the major ...

When the government shutdown ends, Donald Trump will have succeeded in staging the single biggest expansion of presidential power in American history because of the single largest shift in the ...

The democratic maturity of a state is measured by the rigidity of its separation of powers and the robustness of its ...

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. In recent years, the Supreme Court has ...

In recent years, the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned an idea – the separation of powers – that the Framers thought was vital to the preservation of liberty. Instead, the court seems to have been ...