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The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity (opens the original)
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Among the many theories of constitutional interpretation that swirl through American politics, the Unitary Executive Theory (UET) is the most important one circulating today. It played a prominent role in Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion in Trump v. United States, where the six conservative Justices endorsed a novel doctrine of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. The Court applied the theory again in Trump v. Slaughter, which gave the president broad authority to dismis
Independence Day, From Jefferson to Reagan to Trump (opens the original)
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Thomas Jefferson’s reported last words were, “Is it the Fourth?” John Adams’s were, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” As a matter of fact, Adams was wrong; Jefferson had predeceased him by some hours. Their fellow Americans viewed their joint deaths on July 4, 1826, as a providential sign. Who are we to question their judgment? Exactly 50 years and one day earlier, Adams guessed wrong on another matter. Writing his wife Abigail from Philadelphia, where he was attending the Second Continental Co
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