Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary ...

President Trump's flurry of executive actions and orders spark a critical question: Does he have the power he claims to have?

No, he doesn’t. But you would think he believes one or all of those things if you learned about him from the New York Times. On Wednesday, the outlet published a story on Vought, who ran the ...

On February 5, Gwynne Wilcox filed a lawsuit challenging her firing by Trump, setting up a vehicle the Supreme Court’s ...

Some of his actions are facing legal challenges, but some point to the so-called unitary executive theory as a defense eof his plans. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks it down.

Under the “unitary executive” theory driving the onslaught, the president holds unchecked authority within the executive branch, power that lies outside any constraints from Congress or the ...

The Times explains that the “legal underpinning” of Project 2025 “is a maximalist version of the so-called unitary executive theory that rejects the idea that the government is composed of three ...

No doubt the conservative legal movement believes that in advancing the unitary executive theory it is espousing the true meaning of the Constitution. In fact, it boasts that it has rediscovered ...