Executive Branch

Separation of Powers Takes Another Hit

Jeffrey H. Anderson · September 29, 2016 7:42 pm

Donald Trump Cannot Save Our Republic

Jay Cost · September 22, 2016 10:30 am

According to the poll, conducted from Sept. 7-11, 61 percent of Americans have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust and confidence in the judiciary, 51 percent in the executive branch, and 35 percent in Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Beltway Confidential

Throw the bums out? Confidence in government shockingly rising

Jason Russell · September 21, 2016 8:18 pm

Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch called on Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to withdraw the rule, proposed in April, and resubmit it. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

GOP warns Treasury against planned rule on corporate debt

Joseph Lawler · August 22, 2016 4:02 pm

President Obama meets with members of this national security and cybersecurity teams in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. A presidential cybersecurity commission is expected to produce a first draft of its findings in just over a month. (AP Photo)

Business groups given little time to respond to government cybersecurity report

Charlie Mitchell · August 11, 2016 2:52 pm

What Is a President’s Job Description?

Max Bloom · August 5, 2016 4:15 pm

Let’s relocate the federal government

Let’s relocate the federal government

Paul Kupiec · June 7, 2016 4:30 am

The Article I Regulatory Budget Act is not a silver bullet. The Executive Branch would still retain far too many powers delegated away by Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Make government accountable again

Mike Lee and Rep. Mark Walker · May 26, 2016 4:03 am

Turning back the leviathan of the administrative state

David McIntosh and william-haun · February 12, 2016 5:03 am

Mike Lee argued that Congress gave that power to the bureaucrats because "hard work and accountability are inconvenient," but he pointed out that the tactic has backfired because congressional approval ratings hover around 10 percent. (AP Photo)

Sen. Lee to the rest of Congress: ‘You’re doing it wrong’

Joel Gehrke · February 3, 2016 3:25 pm

Seven provisions of the Omnibus deal will help encourage more speech or put a halt to various efforts to increase regulation of political speech via the executive branch. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Congress moves to protect free speech from bureaucratic assault

Luke Wachob · December 31, 2015 5:01 am

Lead prosecutor Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Tuesday. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News Via AP, Pool)

Texas: Obama’s immigration move an ‘affront to the rule of law’

Anna Giaritelli · December 29, 2015 11:23 pm