President vs. the Supreme Court
One is doing his job. The other doesn’t know what its job is.
Matthew G. Andersson | June 30, 2026
The Supreme Court made a good decision on Slaughter, allowing the president to fire subordinates, but a bad decision on the SAVE America Act. SCOTUS unfortunately doesn't understand how to consistently link unitary power theory with larger national security, into a unified doctrine of constitutional law.
A former senior member of the Obama administration argues in the New York Times that the Supreme Court is giving the president too much power. He and his co-author debate the “unitary executive” theory via the Court’s recent landmark ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, whereby the role of the nation’s chief executive, thought in their reading to be strictly circumscribed by the Constitution, becomes a worrisome single power acting without sufficient checks and balances.
They misunderstand what unitary means, and why, and when, it is vital. Unfortunately, so does the Court in relation to vital national interest (more on that in a moment).
Nothing quite gets the progressive left and liberal law professors animated, and emotionally worked up than when the SCOTUS makes a ruling they don’t like. They also have a tendency to make sweeping generalizations about those rulings, usually predicting some vague dire consequence.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/president-vs-the-supreme-court/
