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 ...

I want to take a moment to reiterate and explain an idea I’ve discussed many times here but which is particularly relevant in this moment: all power is unitary. What does this mean? Basically it ...

Today, there are multiple cases bouncing around the federal courts that will ultimately force the Supreme Court to either fully implement the unitary executive theory, or to try and cabin it ...

Even if she doesn’t, Trump’s administration appears ready to fire so many federal officials that a legal showdown over the unitary executive is almost certainly inevitable. If Trump prevails ...

President Trump is asserting his power, and one idea that seems to be motivating his actions is the unitary executive theory. But where does this idea come from, and how does it relate to the ...

The surest way to ruin a bipartisan dinner party is to say the words “unitary executive.” Liberals are likely to respond: “To give a president (especially one as capricious as Trump ...

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 ...

The so-called "unitary executive theory" has various iterations but centers on the idea that the Constitution gives the president sole control over the executive branch of government. Its ...

Mr. Trump is operating under the theory that the executive branch is unitary, in the sense that Article II of the Constitution places executive power in a single person, the president, who gets to ...

Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by ... often with something called the unitary executive theory, the idea that the president personally embodies an entire branch of government.