From Wall Street Journal.

President Trump is using the popular conservative ideology known as the “unitary executive theory” to give more power to the executive branch. He is using the legal theory to help justify firing thousands of federal workers, dismantling entire agencies like USAID and overseeing what were created as independent regulatory agencies like the FTC and SEC.

WSJ explains the legal theory and why the Supreme Court may allow the expansion of executive power.

Chapters:
0:00 Trump using conservative legal theory
0:42 The unitary executive theory, explained
3:10 How the theory has been used in the past
4:46 The Supreme Court

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