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

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

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.

“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 ...

And with all we know today, the governor’s emergency powers are no longer required and should have ended by now. This is an abuse of power and the legislature – both democrats and republicans ...

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

“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.