The New Republic’s new senior legal columnist talks with editor Michael Tomasky about how Donald Trump is wrecking the Justice Department.

Trump’s conduct is not okay, but it’s also not beyond or contrary to our constitutional allocation of powers. As much as it ...

President Trump’s nominees for key positions have a history of pushing back against the work of the departments and agencies they’ve been chosen to lead.

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, vowed to make counterterrorism a priority under his ...

Less than a fortnight in office, President Donald Trump has quickly targeted federal employees in his attempt to remake the ...

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

No longer just campaign trail rhetoric, President Donald Trump’s insistence that immigration to the United States amounts to an “invasion” may be critical to unlocking extraordinary powers as the ...

President Donald Trump caught his own administration off guard last week by suggesting that the nation’s primary disaster response agency might simply “go away.” ...

Trump broke the law last Friday night when he summarily fired 18 inspectors general and ignored the 1978 law that requires giving 30 days notice to the Congress and providing cause for such actions.

Patel, who has been a longtime Trump supporter and was part of the president’s first stint in the White House tried to ...

The Justice Department called for an investigation of a sheriff in Ithaca, N.Y., who had released an undocumented man who was ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.