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While Leavitt did say "America cannot function," the rest of the quote shared on social media was wrong. Here's her real ...

Re “It’s time for a fourth branch of government” (Ideas, May 4): My response to Josh Lerner and Marjan Ehsassi’s assertion is a heartfelt amen. I believe E.O. Wilson, if only he were still ...

This fourth branch of government would be composed of ordinary Americans, selected by lottery. Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. And yes ...

Every student learns about the three branches of government in civics class. There's the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the executive branch. But in Tennessee, there's an unusual ...

Trump’s efforts to stretch the limits of his executive authority have been repeatedly curtailed by the third branch of government: the judiciary. There have been more than 100 lawsuits filed ...

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels ... But it also set out a separation of branches of government and an independent judiciary that is “subject ...

The growing power of the presidency − and its role with Congress as an equal branch of government − will be ... debates loom in Congress that could test Trump's popularity.

The judicial branch was caught off guard, and Congress, as usual, seems paralyzed to do anything but draw hefty paychecks off the backs of the American taxpayers.

During his 33 years as a civics teacher at Seneca Valley High School, he’s taught thousands of students about the three branches of United States government and how the unique system has stood the ...

What's False The order does not allow the president or attorney general sole powers to interpret the law in the judicial or legislative branches of government. A Trump official just announced that ...

The so-called "unitary executive theory" has various iterations but centers on the idea that the Constitution gives the president sole control over the executive branch of government. Its ...