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#Unitary-Executive

Events indexed under #Unitary-Executive — 10 entries in the record.

10 events From Oct 25, 1926 To Dec 8, 2025 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-12-08Supreme Court Signals Intent to Overturn 90-Year Precedent Protecting Independent Agency Leaders from Presidential Firing, Expanding Executive Power
U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · John Roberts · +4
 confirmed
2006-07-24ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight
George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1
 confirmed
2005-05-10Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding
Steven G. Bradbury · Alberto Gonzales · John A. Rizzo · David Addington · +4
 confirmed
2003-03-14Yoo OLC Memo Exempts 'Wartime' Domestic Surveillance from Fourth Amendment — Stealth Authorization of NSA Warrantless Wiretap Program
John C. Yoo · Jay Bybee · William Haynes II · Michael Hayden · +5
 confirmed
2002-08-01Bybee OLC 'Torture Memo' Redefines Severe Pain and Asserts Commander-in-Chief Override of Anti-Torture Statute
Jay Bybee · John C. Yoo · Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · +4
 confirmed
2001-09-25Yoo OLC Memo Declares Presidential War Powers 'Plenary' and 'Unreviewable' — Post-9/11 Doctrinal Foundation
John C. Yoo · Timothy E. Flanigan · Jay Bybee · David Addington · +3
 confirmed
1994-09-27Dellinger OLC Haiti Memo Establishes 'Consultation-Not-Authorization' Framework for War Powers — the Clinton-Era Doctrinal Bridge
Walter Dellinger · Bill Clinton · U.S. Office of Legal Counsel · Bob Dole · +3
 confirmed
1988-06-29Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine
U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Theodore Olson · +2
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1987-11-18Iran-Contra Minority Report: Cheney, Addington Lay Groundwork for Unitary-Executive Doctrine That Shapes Bush II and Trump II
Dick Cheney · David Addington · Michael Malbin · Henry Hyde · +4
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1926-10-25Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims
U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Frank S. Myers · +2
 confirmed