Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He writes regularly about the intersection of the courts and policy at his Substack, “Governing Right.” He has worked at the White House Domestic Policy Council, the US House of Representatives, the US Department of Education, a state legislature, a state department of education, and as a member of three state-level policy-making boards.
Trump v. Slaughter is among the most important tests to date of the Supreme Court’s view of the “unitary executive theory” – the idea that control over the entire executive branch is vested in the president.
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