The Trump administration wants a judicial showdown over independent agencies. The history is muddled—and the consequences ...

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 ...

in part by giving the president and attorney general control over executive branch agencies' interpretation of the law. Section 7 of the order reads: The President and the Attorney General ...

So, what is unitary executive theory and why does it matter, including to those of us in education policy? Let’s commence ...

a president can order the federal government to take any steps that are within the scope of the constitutional authority of the executive branch and do not violate any federal law.

Harris argues that because Article II of the Constitution makes the president the head of the executive branch, he has the unrestricted power to remove all executive officers, including the heads ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump is embracing a decades-old theory that could give him unprecedented control over the executive branch, setting up a showdown with Congress and the courts that ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (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 ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has sent out a second mass e-mail to executive branch employees requiring them to list their weekly accomplishments by midnight Monday — but ...

Accordingly, in the U.S., as in virtually all modern states, law is made and interpreted not only by the legislature and the courts, but also by a multitude of executive branch officials applying ...

It reads: The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order grasping far greater control over independent federal agencies embraces a constitutionally questionable theory that presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan ...