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Trump needs the court to validate his sweeping view of presidential power.

The Supreme Court will soon review the president’s authority to fire “independent” agency heads.

Trump has veered, often suddenly, proudly and loudly, into unprecedented territory in at least 15 different areas.

With Congress essentially AWOL, the courts offer the only real check on presidential power.

President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about what to call the military agency

The president is on a record-shattering pace for executive actions.

The New York Times admits that Trump is going further than Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and Taft "might have imagined possible"

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