The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, is poised to revisit a 90-year-old decision limiting presidential power to remove agency heads without cause. The case questions the unitary ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

Yet, over two centuries later, the unitary executive theory (UET) has emerged as one of the most controversial doctrines in constitutional law. It asserts that the President possesses exclusive ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] ...