Presidents, Bureaucracy, and the Real Threat to Democracy – James R. Rogers

Presidents, Bureaucracy, and the Real Threat to Democracy – James R. Rogers

My thanks to my three interlocutors on the important issue of the Constitution and the unitary executive, Andy Smarick, John Yoo, and Keven Frazier. As I wrote, the theory of the unitary executive asserts that “the president has authority to direct all parts of the executive branch and to fire anyone in the executive branch or, at least, to fire anyone with authority over policy.” There are, of course, any number of alternative institutional arr…