Yesterday, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone for over an hour in a bid to jumpstart stalled trade talks between the two economic powers. The two sides had agreed to a truce in May after similar high-level negotiations in Geneva, each country agreeing to significantly lower high tariffs on the other's goods.

Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to permit it to proceed with dismantling the Department of Education, a move that would leave school policy in the United States almost entirely in the hands of states and local boards.

Once again, Trump’s aggressive, scattershot use of executive power has pushed us into new constitutional territory.

By DAVID A. LIEB As President Donald Trump’s administration targets states and local governments for not cooperating with federal immigration authorities, lawmakers in some Democratic-led

The president is not just abusing the immunity that the Supreme Court granted him. He might be seeking to expand it.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can—for now—end a program used by over half a million migrants.

As legal battles drag out, and possibly work their way up to a firmly conservative Supreme Court, the school is at an increasing disadvantage, some observers point out.

The U.S. Supreme Court has acted in a series of cases involving challenges to executive orders signed by President Donald Trump and actions by his administration since he returned to office in January.

On May 16, the Supreme Court handed down a significant order in one of the many swirling cases over the Trump administration’s efforts to seize immigrants and deport them to foreign prisons. In an unsigned opinion,