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 authority for a ...

The Court "hand[s] the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)." The briefing in Trump v. Wilcox concluded on April 16 ...

WEHLE: Yes, that's a direct line to the unitary executive theory. I mean, bear in mind, Article II says the president can appoint executive branch officials, hire them.

The 'unitary executive theory' Driving Trump's strategy is a legal framework championed by conservatives, perhaps most notably by Trump's newly-confirmed director of White House Office of ...

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) total ...

Peter M. Shane of Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, a former Office of Legal Counsel official, and now a paramount scholar of presidential authority, points to a 1988 dispute with ...

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 ...