The One Idea That Connects Trump’s Recent Actions

President Trump’s team has embraced the unitary executive theory, a legal ideology that argues that the Constitution prohibiting Congress from placing any limits on the president’s control of the executive branch, including by creating independent agencies or by restricting the president’s ability to fire any government official. Astead W. Herndon, a national politics reporter and Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court, explain Trump’s apparent strategy.