Fighting Alone — And Why I’m Not There are days when writing about truth, constitutional limits, and the slow erosion of our civic culture feels like shouting into a void. I sit at my desk, type out what I know is real, what I know is happening, what I know is dangerous — and I wonder if anyone out there is actually listening. I wonder if I’m fighting a battle most people have already walked away from. It’s easy to feel alone in this moment. It’s easy to believe the country has split into tribes that don’t want truth, don’t want accountability, don’t want anything that challenges the stories they tell themselves. It’s easy to think the liars have won because they’re louder, flashier, angrier, and more entertaining. But feeling alone doesn’t mean being alone. And the more I look around, the more I realize I’m not nearly as isolated as the noise makes me feel. But who can I talk to about it? In today's political climate, it's not like you can sit around talking about po...
Most Americans never think about the “unitary executive theory.” Why would they? It’s a niche constitutional idea usually debated by scholars, not shouted at rallies. But Donald Trump dragged it out of the law journals and turned it into a kind of political weapon — a way to claim powers the Constitution doesn’t give him and to convince millions of people that he’s entitled to them. So let’s start where this actually begins: what the theory says, and what it doesn’t. The unitary executive theory is about one thing only — the president’s control over the Executive Branch. Not Congress. Not the courts. Not state governments. Not elections. Not criminal accountability. Even the strongest version of the theory only argues that the president should have broad authority to direct and remove executive officers. That’s it. A narrow debate about how the president oversees the federal bureaucracy. But Trump treats the theory like a constitutional permission slip for presidential...