The originalist case for a unitary executive falls apart in an era when many of the powers wielded by the executive branch were not originally supposed to be federal powers in the first place.

The book argues that the vast majority of such orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped by negotiations that span the executive branch. Three months after being honored by the American ...

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 ...

He says the Constitution allows his unprecedented executive branch purge. As President Donald Trump works at a breakneck speed to implement his second-term agenda, including wholesale firings and ...

In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.

Conservatives cannot have it both ways. Either delegation of lawmaking power by Congress to the executive branch is constitutionally acceptable or it is not.

Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

Presidential memoranda are "executive orders by another name, and yet unique," wrote presidential scholar Phillip Cooper on his book By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive ...

The federal government on Monday published its quadrennial “Plum Book,” a listing of all the presidentially appointed jobs across executive and legislative branch agencies. Formally known as U ...

The U.S. has been moving down the path of administrative government in fits and starts from the initial Progressive Era reforms through the New Deal’s interventions in the economy.

Last year, the Government Accountability Office released a report that recommended we overhaul the Plum Book. "There is no single source of data on political appointees serving in the executive ...

It was once vanishingly rare for Congress and the executive branch to square off in court, but it has become increasingly common — especially in the past year, after Mr. Trump vowed to stonewall ...