When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

The Supreme Court has already affirmed the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now the ...

Some of President Donald Trump's executive orders this term include withdrawing from the World Health Organization and banning birthright citizenship.

Donald Trump has already signed dozens of executive orders. VERIFY explains the difference between EOs and acts of Congress.

Learn about the history of Executive Order 11246 following President Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI programs and ...

President Trump kicked off his grand return to the Oval Office by signing an avalanche of executive orders on Monday that ...

Trump picked Leah B. Foley, a longtime federal prosecutor who has investigated money laundering and drug trafficking, to lead ...

This is an opinion column. Presidential signings once meant something. Not all of them, of course, some were as thin and inert as the paper upon which they were signed. Yet many signings were ...

Trump signed an executive action Monday night dealing with gender identity. The details weren't immediately made public; ...

[3] [4] In his 2014 book, By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action, Phillip J. Cooper, a professor of public administration at Portland State University, wrote, "As a ...

Here's what to know about executive orders as President Donald Trump plans for several on his first day in office.

Here's what an executive order is, how it works, and its limitations in the U.S. government, as President Trump prepares to ...