Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

Just one council may run services in a county in the west of England in a bid to simplify local government and cut costs. Councillors in Gloucestershire have been working on plans to merge the ...

There is confusion over what will happen to the debts owed by Woking Borough Council (pictured) and Spelthorne Borough Council One of the two new unitary authorities confirmed for Surrey could be ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

Creating five new unitary authorities for Sussex would save £52.4m a year, Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) leaders have said. The council's proposal for restructuring councils includes expanding ...

Thurrock Council and Rochford DC have each produced a different four-unitary configuration for Essex, bringing the total number business cases for the government to consider to four. Last week Essex ...

The surest way to ruin a bipartisan dinner party is to say the words “unitary executive.” Liberals are likely to respond: “To give a president (especially one as capricious as Trump) total control ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was ...

In the past month, two federal judges have ordered federal agencies to reinstate thousands of federal employees, including those at USDA, decisions the Trump administration strongly disagrees with and ...

Much of the litigation surrounding the new Trump administration turns in part on "unitary executive" theory - the idea that the president should have near-total control over the executive branch of ...