A new plan for Devon to be carved up into four unitary authorities has emerged. Under the government's massive shake up of local government, all district and county councils will be abolished so that ...

There is confusion over what will happen to the debts owed by Woking Borough Council (pictured) and Spelthorne Borough Council One of the two new unitary authorities confirmed for Surrey could be ...

Devon should be split into three unitary authorities in a huge shake-up of local government, according to the district councils in the county. All of the district councils and the county council will ...

As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

The Supreme Court majority is advancing a long-term goal of conservatives to strengthen presidential power. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with John Yoo, a proponent of "unitary executive theory." We have ...

The "unitary business principle," is a rule that decides when a state can tax a company's income that is earned in more than one place. It helps separate what income can be taxed by a state and what ...

Since April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted President Trump emergency relief no fewer than 13 times. It has temporarily blocked lower-court orders that, for example, halted aggressive ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Trump’s indifference to the job is the modern incarnation of a problem that defenders ...