Remember that Trump’s nominee for SCOTUS believes in the “strong unitary executive” view of presidential power
John Dean
“In its most extreme form, unitary executive theory can mean that neither Congress nor the federal courts can tell the President what to do or how to do it, particularly regarding national security matters."
“In its most extreme form, unitary executive theory can mean that neither Congress nor the federal courts can tell the President what to do or how to do it, particularly regarding national security matters."
Of course it was sex.
A 1988 dispute between Reagan and Congress over AIDS education sowed “the seeds of the hard-line ‘unitary executive’ theory.
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A 1988 dispute between Reagan and Congress over AIDS education sowed “the seeds of the hard-line ‘unitary executive’ theory.
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“Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society conservatives worked to provide a constitutional cover for” the unitary executive theory
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“The American Bar Assn. denounced this practice in 2006 as presenting ‘grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances, that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries’."
A warning from the American Constitution Society: presidential power needs to be limited “by the rule of law.”
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