WSJ: The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Plan to Consolidate Power
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.
Constitutionalism
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Religious Exemptions?: What the Free Exercise Clause Means
A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.
The American Revolutions of 1776
America's founding was animated by both the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion — a philosophical and practical achievement worth understanding and attempting to recover today.
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Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton and a Few First Amendment Principles
Protecting children from purveyors of porn should not be controversial.
Executive Power in the Age of Trump
It is possible to develop a single theory that strikes the right balance among the three branches, not just for the Trump era, but also before and after.
