During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca ...

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 ...

ONOE risks turning a federal republic into a top-down corporation, where citizens vote once and stay silent thereafter.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, a case that will decide whether Congress can require ...

A ruling in favor of Trump’s position has been expected by legal experts because the justices have been chipping away at a ...

The introduction of the highly misplaced Decree 34 of 1966 by the General Aguiyi Ironsi administration, which put Nigeria on the path of unitary form of government as opposed to the federalism adopted ...

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. […] ...

Just one council may run services in a county in the west of England in a bid to simplify local government and cut costs. Councillors in Gloucestershire have been working on plans to merge the ...

While former President Barack Obama sometimes invoked Article II executive power in controversial ways, those moves are nowhere near the level of President Donald Trump's raw assertion of presidential ...

In 1918, the Austrian political scientist Joseph Schumpeter delivered a now-famous lecture titled “The Crisis of the Tax State.” The question he addressed was whether or not the First World War would ...