Trump claims he has the executive power to dismantle agencies and fire thousands of workers. Will court fights redefine his relations with Congress?

As proponents of the unitary executive point out, and as Justice Antonin Scalia put it in a famous dissenting opinion, this provision “does not mean some of the executive power, but all of the ...

The unitary executive is a theory that gives the president total control over the government. Trump has tried to use it to centralize power, undermining the independence of institutions and ...

is known as the unitary executive theory. Growing out of a dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia in a 1988 Supreme Court case, the theory is that Article II’s inaugural statement that the ...

The recent firings of federal officials and rounds of executive orders under President ... some gun control laws since the late Justice Antonin Scalia was still on the bench.

Nationwide injunctions not only cross that line, but also prevent the federal government from enforcing an act of Congress, executive order, or agency rule against nonparties. Unless and until ...

A Reagan-era political theory born with Antonin Scalia The political theory Trump ... The theory called the "unitary executive," which holds that the president controls the entire executive ...