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The Government's Confidence Slide May Be Less Than It Looks
Gallup's new numbers show a sharp drop in trust in Washington, but the partisan split and a stubborn 49-point power gap tell a more complicated story.

Gallup's new numbers show a sharp drop in trust in Washington, but the partisan split and a stubborn 49-point power gap tell a more complicated story.

Winning a monopoly case is the easy half; the fight over what the court actually orders is where remedies live or die.

The rules a department writes reach farther than any law Congress passes this year.

An executive order runs the executive branch. It cannot write law, spend money, or survive a court that says it exceeds the president's authority.