All posts tagged "Executive Power"

President Donald Trump was dealt a major blow when the Supreme Court ruled to uphold mail-in voting, but the "win" Trump saw with the high court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter might come back to haunt him and the GOP, an analyst reported on Tuesday.

In Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled that the president has the power to fire members of formerly independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, The Bulwark's White House correspondent Andrew Egger explained.

"But there’s no question that this conservative Court has one ideological priority that aligns perfectly with Trump’s own," Egger wrote. "They see the independent agency structure—in which Congress impanels some regulatory body, gives them broad policy-setting and enforcement authorities, and insulates them from political accountability by setting up mechanisms that make their members difficult to fire—as inherently dubious under the Constitution."...

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."...