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

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to turnover documents and answer questions regarding "DOGE's and Musk's role ...

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

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump is embracing a decades-old theory that could give him unprecedented control over the ...

Trump’s executive order provides the president with supervisory authority and control of the entire executive branch and requires all agencies to submit all significant regulatory actions of the ...

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.

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 ...

That authoritarian trope masquerading as a legal doctrine holds that literally everybody who works in the executive branch of government serves at the pleasure of the president and can be hired ...

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His bold order putting ‘independent agencies’ under White House control echoes the Founders.

and that the executive branch has every right to look into government agencies like those dealing with education and Medicaid, "Congress has to do their work." Late Thursday night, Balderson's ...