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On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court discreetly issued an emergency order permitting the Trump administration to move forward with sweeping layoffs across federal agencies. The unsigned ruling did ...

President Donald Trump’s second term in office has marked a significant authoritarian turn in the operation of the executive branch. As power centralizes in the White House, edicts flow to control and ...

The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with which branch's powers independent executive agencies exert, as the justices weighed whether President Donald Trump may fire a Democrat-appointed Federal Trade ...

Since April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted President Trump emergency relief no fewer than 13 times. It has temporarily blocked lower-court orders that, for example, halted aggressive ...

The Supreme Court majority is advancing a long-term goal of conservatives to strengthen presidential power. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with John Yoo, a proponent of "unitary executive theory." We have ...

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Trump v. Slaughter is among the most important tests to date of the Supreme Court’s view of the “unitary executive theory” – the idea that control over the entire executive branch is vested in the ...

Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White, which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. Please note that the views of outside contributors do ...

As the Supreme Court prepares a landmark ruling about the scope of presidential power, the current president is acting more unleashed than any predecessor. He is demonstrating that a president not ...