In an alternative world where Harris or Gavin Newsom were president, would you be comfortable with this kind of imperial presidency? This column was first published in The Orange County Register.

The imperial presidency: Republicans just pulled off their longest con. Story by Heather Digby Parton • 11mo. I n 1973 the Senate Watergate Committee uncovered a plan that had been hatched three ...

Trump’s refusal to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal is but one illustration of the imperial presidency’s possibilities.

He’s trying to create an imperial presidency — and he’s ruling by decree. In a blizzard of executive orders, Trump has halted federal spending on clean energy, ...

In the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump is aggressively implementing a far-right, multipronged plan to create an imperial presidency.

Yet Vice President J.D. Vance argued recently on X: “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney ...

They use the term “imperial” to describe his presidency – and his own policy ideas on reclaiming the Panama Canal, annexing Greenland, Canada becoming our 51st state, or taking over Gaza and ...

But Congress has rarely checked the president’s international actions. Instead, over the last 60 years, the legislative branch has given—and presidents have grabbed—more and more authority over ...

By week’s end, President Trump will have signed executive orders on immigration, energy, gender ideology and outward into every nook of American life, not to mention the rest of the world he ...

Surprise! Trump’s ‘imperial presidency’ came from liberals’ disregard for the Constitution by Claes G. Ryn, opinion contributor - 04/19/25 8:00 AM ET ...

The imperial presidency: Republicans just pulled off their longest con Supreme Court weaponizes the presidency knowing what criminals like Richard Nixon and Donald Trump are capable of ...