With the legislative session about to begin, here's what to know about the power players and plot lines this year.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Missouri’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down a law that gave politicians control over ballot ...

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In Utah we have wrestled with the question of who should redraw legislative district lines since at least 2018, when voters approved Proposition 4, putting the power in the hands of an independent ...

Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. The first, which is quite well known, is Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less ...

A bill to adopt an official definition of antisemitism in New Jersey appears to have widespread support in the state Legislature, with dozens of sponsors signed on from both sides of the aisle. But ...

Trump v. Slaughter is among the most important tests to date of the Supreme Court’s view of the “unitary executive theory” – the idea that control over the entire executive branch is vested in the ...

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Congress tried to claw back the FTC's powers in 1980 through a legislative veto, but Chadha rendered that "bargain" unconstitutional. Here, Barrett asked about whether a legislative veto may have also ...

The framers of the U.S. Constitution famously divided power among three branches of government so that, as James Madison explained in Federalist 51, the "constituent parts may, by their mutual ...