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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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly a year after the FBI executed its shocking raid on Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, the special counsel on the case, Jack Smith, has issued his thirty-eight–count indictment. The first ...

Since April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted President Trump emergency relief no fewer than 13 times. It has temporarily blocked lower-court orders that, for example, halted aggressive ...

We have the larger story behind a seemingly small news item. The Supreme Court this month let President Trump fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission - at least for now. The court ...

I've been turning the implications of the administration's broad new view over in my head all day. I think to grasp how stunning this is, you need to listen to David Rivkin's defense: David B. Rifkin, ...