Unitary Executive Powers (5016)

Joining host Jim Falk this week:

Jeremi Suri, Ph.D., presidential historian at the University of Texas at Austin, Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History and Public Policy. He is the author of nine books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. He and his son Zachary co-host a weekly podcast, This is Democracy.

Stephen I. Vladeck, J.D., professor of law at Georgetown University, and a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts and the Supreme Court. Steve is CNN’s Supreme Court analyst and editor and author of “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”

No other American president in recent history has been more determined than Donald Trump to amass power over not just the presidency, testing as a result the ability of the judicial branch to rein in the executive branch. To date, the legislative branch, Congress, has shown little intent to exercise its constitutional power.

Notwithstanding, there has been, since the 1970s, a push towards giving the President near absolute power expressed through what is described as the unitary executive power.
Recognizing the corrupt nature of unchecked power, the Founders and writers of the Constitution designed a system of government with co-equal branches, creating a system of checks and balances.

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