Opinion

There Is No Such Thing as an Independent Agency

The FTC was created under a Wilson-era statute that restricted presidents to firing its commissioners for cause, precisely for the purpose of insulating them from political pressure — code for making ...
Nextgov

Push to 'reform the government root and branch' detailed in Trump’s new management agenda

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. By Natalie Alms and Sean Michael Newhouse By Natalie Alms and Sean Michael Newhouse The Trump administration laid out its plans to “end ...
Opinion

How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself

While on its face the Slaughter case is a case about presidential power, a few key justices signaled that they are comfortable giving Trump the power he seeks in this case because ...

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend 90-Year-Old Precedent

The Supreme Court debated limits on presidential power to fire FTC board members, signaling a potential shift in agency ...
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Supreme Court appears poised to vastly expand presidential powers

The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a ...
WBHM 90.3

Supreme Court to hear case that could vastly expand presidential powers

The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a ...
Arizona Daily Star

8 Democrats voted with Republicans on the government shutdown deal. Here's how they explain it

The Democratic senators — eight in total — faced almost instant blowback from members of their own party as they voted to allow the Senate to move forward on compromise legislation that would reopen ...

EDITORIAL: The fourth branch? Not so fast

Yet in a decision last year, the state Supreme Court brushed aside more than two centuries of precedent and arbitrarily ...
ABC News

The members of Congress who got paid during the government shutdown

Some lawmakers are donating their salaries. Nearly 4 in 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives did not take their pay during the government shutdown, according to an ABC News survey of ...
The Hill

When will federal workers get paid once the government reopens?

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers had been furloughed or working without pay since the government shut down on Oct. 1. After the White House and Congress finally resolved the record-breaking ...
Inside Higher Ed

With Government Reopened, Will Education Department Staff Return?

The House of Representatives passed a legislative package Wednesday evening in a 222-209 vote, putting Congress one step closer to ending the federal government’s longest shutdown in history.
AZFamily

These 8 senators broke with Democrats on the government shutdown deal. Here’s how they explain it

WASHINGTON (AP) — The senators — eight in total — faced almost instant blowback from Democrats as they broke ranks and voted to allow the Senate to move forward on compromise legislation that would ...