The originalist case for a unitary executive falls apart in an era when many of the powers wielded by the executive branch were not originally supposed to be federal powers in the first place. If ...

Does President-elect Donald Trump‘s budget honcho, Russ Vought, believe there is only one branch of government? Or four? Or does he argue that the executive branch is superior to legislative and ...

At the heart of the argument for establishing the president’s removal power and the unity of the executive is the Decision of 1789, when the First Congress established the first executive departments: ...

Much of the litigation surrounding the new Trump administration turns in part on "unitary executive" theory - the idea that the president should have near-total control over the executive branch of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As President Donald Trump works at a breakneck speed to implement his second-term agenda, including wholesale firings and sweeping ...

Critics of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have recently attacked him for 1) endorsing a supposedly radical theory of presidential power called a belief in the Unitary ...

On January 13, 2020, a political scientist named Daniel Drezner tweeted a screenshot of a Washington Post article, along with a cheeky comment: “I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency ...