The Briefing with Michael Waldman

The executive branch has amassed tremendous power, challenging the constitutional balance among branches of government. This year alone, the president has ignored the laws passed by Congress to fire l...

12 Aug 202554min

President Trump has ordered cuts to the Department of Education and federal education funding. The brunt of these cuts will likely fall on low-income communities. The president is also demanding chang...

29 Jul 202547min

The end of the 20th century saw the rise of mass incarceration as well as originalism, the idea that judges must interpret the Constitution according to its supposed original intent. In a new book, Ju...

22 Jul 202550min

This term, the Supreme Court  addressed some of the biggest challenges in its history, with a president determined to break through the constitutional limits of executive power and the Court’s own pub...

15 Jul 202553min

On the first day of his second term, President Trump issued an executive order purporting to strip U.S. citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants. The order directly conflicts with the ...

18 Jun 202553min

In the first 100 days of his second term, President Trump issued more than 100 executive orders aimed at changing policy through executive authority alone. But has this flurry of orders led to meaning...

5 Mai 202548min

On the day President Trump took office, he revoked the Biden administration’s executive order that imposed guardrails on the development and use of artificial intelligence technology. Since then, Vice...

14 Apr 202551min

President Trump’s new executive order could disenfranchise millions of American citizens, undermine data security, and decertify voting systems across the country. It would give DOGE access to voter r...

4 Apr 202550min