Friday, November 21, 2025
LWV-Downeast
We'll talk about the continuing concentration of executive power in the office of the President of the United States. What has been the historical precedent? How unusual is this moment? What is the unitary executive theory, its origins and implications, and how it's playing out in the current presidential administration? This will be the seventh program in our series on the continuing constitutional crisis in the U.S.
Special guests:
- Graham Dodds, Professor, Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal
- Aaron Frey, Attorney General, State of Maine
Learn more about this topic:
- Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda | The Conversation, November 2025
- Biden alumni have Trump envy | Washington Post, Jason Willick, November 2025
- The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power, October 2025
- Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials | NYT,, October 2025
- The End of Rule of Law in America The Atlantic,, May 2025
- The Unbearable Lightness of the Unitary Executive Theory | The Regulatory Review, March 2025
- How Trump’s Lawyers are Trying to Make Him a King | Public Notice, February 2025
- The Unitary Presidency, by Graham Dodds, 2020
Tune into the broadcast at 4:00 p.m., Friday, November 21, on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, streaming at weru.org. If you miss the broadcast, check back here for the audio archive. Subscribe to our podcast: iTunes | Spotify | Android.