Even a somewhat informed observer might wonder why President Donald Trump and the Republicans, who control all three branches ...

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The Constitution states that Congress has the ... traveled across the Atlantic in 1789 from King George III to President George Washington and was permanently reposed in the presidency.

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The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts” of the ...

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Alan Charles Raul was associate White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan and general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.

Legal expert Richard W. Painter warns that Elon Musk’s unchecked power in the Trump administration poses a historic threat to democracy. As Musk exerts influence over government agencies without Senat ...