Jack Fitzhenry is a legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Follow him on X at @Jfitzy_jd. It’s hardly a sign of civic health when a president begins his ...

Since returning to office, President Trump has moved quickly to reshape the federal government. His actions, which have moved to put more power under his purview, align with a belief in some ...

The firing of three judge advocates general last Friday is the latest step in Trump 2.0’s scheme to blunt executive branch legal obstacles to President Donald Trump’s will. The theory underlying this ...

A CRASH COURSE IN ARTICLE II. Among other things, the second Trump administration is giving the political world an education in the meaning of Article II of the Constitution, the article that ...

The judiciary exists to interpret laws and ensure they comply with the Constitution. If the executive branch were to violate the constitutional rights of individuals—for example, by attempting to ...

A few weeks into Donald Trump’s second presidency, it is clear we will all have to think a lot about executive power in the next four years. The new administration means to flex its muscles, and the ...