The Trump administration believes it can send anyone it wants, without due process or future legal recourse, to rot in a foreign prison.

When the framers of the Constitution ... they’ll only protect us if we enliven them and if we support them. More from Politics Timothy Snyder is the author of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from ...

the Constitution, and the attending to the three equal branches of government by the Republican administration, the U.S. is now on the road to tyranny. What James Madison, one of the Founding ...

Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent judiciary is to be the anti-democratic branch of the government. Its duty is ...

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced ...

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” Within the separation of powers, each of the three branches of ...