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

On Day One, Trump used the National Emergencies Act to deploy additional troops to the southern border and expedite new ...

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

“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 ...

“Trump’s continued abuse of emergency powers to enrich his powerful special interest donors comes at the expense of the health and wallets of working Americans,” he added.

Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Washington ...

Precedent being set, President Trump began his second term by signing a ridiculous number of executive orders, also with his ...