A desire to change civil rights policies has long shaped the conservative legal movement’s vision for asserting presidential control over the administrative state

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Our final Politics in PAIR-Spective Lecture of the semester was a success! Dr. John Dearborn gave an insightful talk into the rights revolution, revealing how civil rights regulation in the 20th cent...

Trump’s quest to claim all power for himself is drastically reshaping not just his presidency, but American democracy writ large.

A desire to change civil rights policies has long shaped the conservative legal movement’s vision for asserting presidential control over the administrative state

President Trump is claiming power over independent agencies and trying to redirect the administrative state, saying he is its unitary executive.

Trump’s spree of firings exposes a dilemma for Congress: a reliance on presidents to respect the independence of executive branch officials.

Now the Supreme Court is all that stands in the way of a “unitary executive”