Point of Order

Congressional oversight is a means of “caging the executive lion” which Prakash believes to be constitutional and appropriate.

Earlier this month the billionaire Leon Black sued the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (COGR) in federal district court, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief regarding two subpoenas that the committee had served upon him.

If there is one central idea of the unitarians, it is that the president should control all executive authority because he can then be held accountable for the use or misuse of that authority.

At least since Watergate the confirmation of an attorney general has been considered a matter of particular importance and sensitivity.

In the last post we discussed how the unitary executory changes the psychology of executive office from being one of an agent of the law to being an agent of the president.

In a recent paper, Professor John C.

In my last post we considered whether the insecurity of unitary executive theory from the standpoint of constitutional text and other accepted methods of constitutional interpretation may explain the reluctance of Professor Prakash (and perhaps other unit…

We left off the last post by asking why Professor Prakash refuses to acknowledge the connection between the “creeping constitutional coup” of executive power, which he warns against in The Living Presidency and elsewhere, and the theory of the unitary exe…

Professor Sai Prakash is a noted legal scholar and prolific author who has long been one of the leading advocates of the unitary executive.

Today the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) voted, 8-5 along party lines, to hold Dr.

I will have a lot to say about the unitary executive in the coming weeks.

The Office of Legal Counsel recently declared that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) “is unconstitutional, and the President need not further comply with its dictates.” 50 Op.

On the Checks and Balances Substack, I have a piece on why and how Congress should conduct oversight of the abusive exercise of the pardon power.

A few months ago a group of six Democratic members of Congress, including Senator Mark Kelly, released a video reminding members of the military that they have a duty to “refuse illegal orders.”