All posts tagged "Executive Branch"

A former legal counsel to President Ronald Reagan says watching Donald Trump in action has changed his perspective of just how much power presidents should be allowed to wield.

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Alan Charles Raul, now a lecturer at Harvard Law School, wrote that he once supported "the 'unitary executive' theory — a legal concept that would allow the president to disregard the contours and safeguards that Congress prescribes for the executive branch to follow."

But, Raul admitted, "Unchecked presidential power is not what the Framers had in mind."...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) admitted that an "imbalance" of powers between his legislative branch and President Donald Trump's executive branch could prompt Congress to take action on disruptive tariffs that have contributed to the weakening economy, according to a new report in Politico.

Johnson made the statement at an Axios "News Shapers" event in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.

“I think the executive has a broad array of authority that’s been recognized over the years” related to trade, Johnson said. “If it gets close to where the imbalance is there, then we would step in.”...