The judiciary’s role in a democracy is to protect individual rights, promote equality, and ensure that the rule of law is upheld, but it can only perform this role if it is allowed to act ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center, about how the future president could employ unitary theory, which gives the executive branch nearly unbridled power.

Sovereignty emanates from the people and should be exercised in trust in accord with will of the People according to the 1992 ...

Kenyans and the world are watching with bated breath how the Judiciary is going to navigate this delicate matter .

The case involving the death of Utah National Guardsman Matthew Johnson has revealed a contentious separation with his estranged wife, Jennifer Gledhill, who is charged with his murder and ...

Over six hours on the day Robert Roberson was set to be put to death, Texas House lawmakers waged a rollercoaster legal battle to delay his execution, setting off a separation-of-powers conflict ...

The idea of family separation as an immigration deterrence strategy had floated around before during the Obama administration. But it wasn’t until Donald Trump came into office that hardliner ...

Rejecting the Centre's argument that it should refrain from examining Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, the Supreme Court on Thursday said the power of judicial review does not undermine the doctrine ...

Contrast this with an artist’s encounter, in Richard Powers’s new novel, Playground, with a juvenile albatross: “Ina reached her hand into the chest of the decomposing bird and drew out two ...

Meanwhile, the broadening divisions between world powers on issues spanning from Eastern Europe to East Asia serve as new opportunities for the geopolitically savvy ISIS-K to make good on its ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 14 episode of "The Rachel Maddow Show." Over the weekend, the Rod of Iron Ministries held their annual Freedom Festival in Pennsylvania. The group ...

This claim rests on two historical sources. One reflects the legacy of English precedent, the other the impact of Montesquieu’s discussion of the concept of the separation of powers in his enormously ...