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The limits to a president's power, including congressional oversight and legal constraints.
’s first presidency ended on January 20, 2021, when was inaugurated as president . Trump’s second, non‑consecutive presidency began on January 20, 2025, and—based on constitutional terms and multiple ...
Twelve Republican senators joined every Democratic senator in 2019 to pass a resolution terminating ’s on , arguing variously that the move violated the Constitution, usurped Congress’s power of the p...
The Constitution assigns as an impeachable offense and provides that officials removed after conviction remain “liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law” (Art...
A multipronged strategy led by voters, state and local officials, civil-society groups, and the courts is the clearest path for Americans to blunt executive overreach when Congress fails to act; litig...
The current presidency—his second—began with his inauguration on January 20, 2025, and under ordinary constitutional rules is scheduled to end at noon on (the sets the transfer time) . Multiple public...
citizens possess multiple legal and institutional avenues to challenge a : federal criminal statutes and civil remedies enforced by the and private parties; state-led litigation and state control over...
A layered system of technical, administrative, and legal safeguards—ranging from voter registration databases and chain-of-custody procedures to post-election audits and voter‑verifiable paper records...
constitutional tradition is commonly taught as resting on —popular sovereignty, republicanism, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, and individual rights—which to...
served two full terms as the 44th President of the , from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017 . Claims that he served three terms are false: contemporaneous records, official archives, and reputable...
If the question is whether would vacate the White House and accept the legal transfer of power if he loses a future presidential election, the record is mixed: Trump has repeatedly refused blanket com...
is neither unlimited presidential whim nor purely congressional territory: a tangle of statutes, exemptions, advisory agencies, funding rules and case law together define what a president can do — and...
The supplied reporting contains background material about the executive branch but includes no reporting or documentary evidence about the website , so it is not possible from these sources to conclud...
Courts have consistently refused to treat as absolute, applying a balancing test that weighs confidentiality against the needs of the justice system or and often ordering disclosure when a sufficient ...
The Supreme Court and Congress have repeatedly acted to restrain presidential claims of unchecked authority: the Court's rejection of Truman's steel seizure in Youngstown established a lasting framewo...
Presidents have on occasion used executive authority—military force, covert operations, indictments, designations and removals—to target foreign political figures and alleged cartel leaders, but docum...