The judiciary poses the ultimate test of whether the president will break the system as the pair set about slashing ...

A memo from the Office of Management and Budget ordering a freeze ... A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the swing state's nonpartisan top elections official can remain in her ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s pause on federal grants and loans Tuesday, just hours ...

The judge said in his decision that the Office of Management and Budget's actions ... Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts.

President Donald Trump's sweeping assertions of executive power during his first weeks back in office appear headed toward ...

To put the point as directly as I can, the Supreme Court’s budget depends upon a functioning appropriations power. The Constitution protects the justices’ salaries, but that’s just 2 percent ...

The recent federal funding freeze spurred immediate finger-pointing inside the Trump administration, with anonymous sources ...

Now that he's back in the White House, Trump appears to be angling for the Supreme Court to expand ... reasoned memo from the Office of Management and Budget, to halt payments of previously ...

Will the Constitution hold? We'll have to wait and see if the conservatives on the Supreme Court have a desire to hold ...