Capture lane

Executive Power Expansion

The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 819 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

819 events From Nov 29, 1864 To May 16, 2026 Open in filter view →

Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1864–2026

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Date	Event	Status
1937-02-05	FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template 3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings	confirmed
1936-12-21	United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy 3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · John Marshall	confirmed
1935-05-27	Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies 3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission	confirmed
1934-06-19	Office of Legal Counsel Established in DOJ Reorganization; Becomes Binding Interpreter of Executive Authority 3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · U.S. Department of Justice	confirmed
1933-03-09	FDR Invokes Trading with the Enemy Act in Peacetime for Bank Holiday: Wilson-Era Wartime Statute Becomes Domestic Emergency Instrument 3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress	confirmed
1926-10-25	Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims 3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Louis Brandeis	confirmed
1917-06-15	Wilson-Era Wartime Executive Architecture: Espionage Act, War Powers Statutes Build Permanent Emergency-Authority Template 3 src Woodrow Wilson · Herbert Hoover · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice	confirmed
1890-12-29	Wounded Knee Massacre - U.S. 7th Cavalry Kills 250+ Lakota, Primarily Women and Children, Ending Ghost Dance Movement 3 src U.S. War Department	confirmed
1876-03-02	War Secretary Belknap Impeached for Selling Military Post Traderships 4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. House of Representatives	confirmed
1875-05-10	Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue 4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department	confirmed
1874-07-02	Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands 3 src U.S. Army · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant	confirmed
1873-04-14	Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections 3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature	confirmed
1871-04-20	Ku Klux Klan Act Authorizes Federal Suppression of Terrorist Violence 4 src Ulysses S. Grant · Ku Klux Klan	confirmed
1868-07-09	Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins 3 src U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature	confirmed
1868-04-29	Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush 3 src Sioux Nation · U.S. government	confirmed
1868-02-24	Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction 4 src Andrew Johnson · U.S. House of Representatives	confirmed
1866-02-19	Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction 4 src Andrew Johnson · Republican Congress	confirmed
1865-05-29	Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders 4 src Andrew Johnson · Republican Congress	confirmed
1864-11-29	Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag 3 src	confirmed