The decisions so far show that the conservative court isn’t going to act as a resistance to an increasingly autocratic ...

Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary executive" theory that envisions vast executive authority for a ...

WEHLE: Yes, that's a direct line to the unitary executive theory. I mean, bear in mind, Article II says the president can appoint executive branch officials, hire them.

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.

Trump v. U.S. is the court’s most radical rewriting of the Constitution since the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which helped ...

“Unitary executive theory seems to think that, at its extreme, the president is in control of all policy decisions made in the executive branch. And that’s just an impossibility.

One of the most vital components of the rule of law is a commitment to neutral, principled analysis in which standards are ...

The federal judicial nominee supports signing “a blank check for Trump to control every agency,” said one government watchdog ...

Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald ...

“The unitary executive theory is a pathway to autocracy,” says Syracuse University law professor David Driesen, whose 2021 book, The Specter of Dictatorship, ...

The surest way to ruin a bipartisan dinner party is to say the words “unitary executive.” Liberals are likely to respond: “To give a president (especially one as capricious as Trump) total ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary executive" theory that envisions vast executive ...