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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New York Times reporter sparked controversy this week after suggesting in an article that President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, Russell T. Vough, helped ...

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: ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the South Lawn of the White House on August 5, 2021. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) All political power is unitary. In the rare instances when I’ve ...