This effectively meant all work stopped on processing the paperwork of people fleeing to the U.S. because of persecution. One ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

Presidential decrees have evolved into powerful tools that significantly impact American governance, shaping policy decisions ...

Trump’s executive orders and firings sparked lawsuits over presidential authority. Experts are saying he is renewing founding ...

Gavin Newsom, facing nationwide criticism after the devastating Los Angeles fires, on Thursday signed an executive order to ...

Trump's order, backed by Musk, limits federal hiring and calls for workforce cuts, agency restructuring and efficiency improvements.

“An executive order is a way the president makes policy without Congress,” Dr. Potter said. “It is a written directive from the president to the executive branch workers, telling them how the ...

President Trump has signed more executive orders in his first couple of weeks as president than any recent president has in ...

Let's talk [about] executive orders. What can and can't they do?

With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

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

Even if Trump doesn’t go further to advance anti-abortion priorities, the nod to fetal personhood in the gender executive order will mean something. This executive order is almost certain to ...