President Trump’s moves test the limits of presidential power and the resilience of US democracy

Who Paid for Trump’s Transition to Power?

“After six weeks in office, President Trump has not disclosed the names of the donors who paid for his transition planning, despite a public pledge to do so,” the New York Times reports.

Trump 2.0 borrows a ton from Richard Nixon — but 37th president’s playbook also has big risks

You’ve made a huge political comeback. You’re deeply suspicious of the Washington bureaucracy. You’re contemptuous of liberal elites and the media they control, especially TV networks and The New York Times.

Harvard professor, political scientist Steven Levitsky, argues that Trump is “the biggest assault on US democratic institutions in history.”

Congress pushed back after Watergate, but what about now?

President Donald Trump has tried to unravel restrictions on presidents that Congress added in the wake of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal, a push that experts say comes at a time when growing partisanship has left Congress ill-equipped to respond. The Trump administration has withheld congressionally mandated funding, fired more than a dozen inspectors general meant to watchdog the executive branch and fired without cause an o…

ABC6 goes one-on-one with Rhode Island AG amid flurry of lawsuits against Trump administration

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The first few months of President Donald Trump’s second term have been filled with an array of moves and orders. ABC6 News sat down with Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha on Tuesday to see where attention is being focused. “I think they should be focused on the effort by the president to sideline the Congress, undermine the Judiciary, and thereby attempting to put all of the power granted by the Constitution i…

Navarrette: Trump is leaving a huge mess only liberals can clean up

President Donald Trump wasted no time sparking new controversies once he returned to office, issuing broad pardons to convicted Jan. 6 criminals immediately after his inauguration. Since then, he’s sought to unilaterally overturn constitutional laws and seize new executive powers. He's also purged the federal government of key programs and personnel, and isolated the United States from its allies and partners on the international stage. A range …