Misusing emergency powers will open the door to further such abuses by this president—or a future one, writes Elizabeth ...

President Trump has declared multiple national emergencies since taking office. That's helping him act quickly. There are few ...

Trump’s potential use of extraordinary authorities may be the first signal of how he intends to govern the second time around.

Since Chinese goods are currently charged with an average rate of 10 percent and most tariffs on Canada and Mexico are near ...

“This is a massive abuse of emergency power,” says Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. “These emergency powers are ...

President Trump, in one of his freewheeling chats with the press, offered last week to declare an emergency at the ...

We need an American equivalent of the Arab Spring, an overwhelming and sustained demand for fundamental rights, good ...

President Donald Trump is testing the limits of his executive authority with statutes that grant him sweeping powers during a ...

The Trump Administration’s proposed tariffs are expected to cost the average American household over $1,200 per year and ...

Leaving aside the merits of these policies, accomplishing them through emergency powers is an abuse of presidential authority. Emergency powers play a particular role in our constitutional system.

Emergency declarations unlock powers across more than 130 federal ... Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation program an “abuse” given its reliance on the COVID-19 national emergency declaration.