Source: Law & Liberty
by John Yoo
“In ‘Democratic Efficacy and the Unitary Executive,’ James G. Rogers argues that the unitary executive enhances the democratic accountability of the presidency. Rogers defines unitary executive, however, as only extending to the president’s constitutional right to remove inferior officials. But as a matter of theory, we cannot divorce the independence of the executive branch from its substance. While the Framers wanted to restore unity and independence to the executive branch, they also remained focused on the actual powers to be given to the president.” [editor’s note: Naturally Yoo — who wrote the infamous Bush-era memo pretending to make executive branch torture “legal” — interprets those “actual powers” to be far more expansive than the Constitution provides for – TLK] (06/18/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/putting-the-executive-in-unitary-executive/