The House has impeached only 15 federal judges since 1803, all for crimes like bribery or perjury. A 2025 wave of impeachment threats over rulings broke that pattern.

A senator gavels the Senate in, says nothing, gavels out — and that ritual is enough to strip a president of the power to fill vacancies without Senate consent.

A pocket rescission works by running out a clock. Here's the clock itself, and why the Supreme Court's answer on the shortcut is still incomplete.

A 6-3 court held that the president cannot narrow by executive order a citizenship guarantee the majority located in the Constitution itself.

The justices left Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board while her suit proceeds, but cleared Trump to remove an FTC commissioner the same day.

The decision turns on a single jurisdictional question: whether courts may review the move at all. The majority said no.