We are taught that our government is composed of three branches: executive,legislative and judicial. Purposefully designed, this division of power should provide adequate checks and balances so that ...

The Constitution created three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. For the past century, progressives in Congress have created a fourth branch composed of ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

"In the brief span of only four decades, the court’s stance on the unitary executive theory has been turned on its head." ...

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. Please ...

This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School.The “unclean hands” ...

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 ...