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

So, what is unitary executive theory and why does it matter ... The Court’s decision was 7-1, but Justice Antonin Scalia’s lone dissent is more important today than the majority opinion. He famously ...

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 ...

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 ...

Against this entirely commonsense understanding, the unitary executive theory insists on a vision of the Constitution that muddles the text, is weakly grounded in history, and ignores how executive ...

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 ...