0 - Unitary Executive Theory (UET) does not hold. 1 - Presidential Power is limited power. 2 - The Supreme Court can use law enforcement and/or the US Military to enforce its rulings. 3 - Congress can use law enforcement and/or the US Military to enforce its demands of the Executive branch. 4 - Presidential criminal immunity does not exist—Trump v. US was wrongly decided. 5 - The President does not have the power to remove federal employees whose employment contract is with the US Government unless Congress explicitly grants that power. 6 - The President cannot make ‘deals’ with other governments binding the US Government except with the consent of the Senate. 7 - Presidential Executive Orders are, at best, mere regulations that Congress can deem inconsistent with the intent of relevant law.For example, the dissolution of an agency created by Congress and exists in law. 8 - Presidential Executive Orders are not law and therefore cannot undo existing law or the provisions of the US Constitution. 9 - The Congress has removal authority over the President and is, for this and other reasons, not a co-equal but a superior branch. The unitary theory of presidential power, supported by MAGA political thinkers, contradicts the Constitution. For example, given that theory: (1) the (Supreme) Court cannot rely upon the Justice Department (DOJ) to enforce the court's rulings as the DOJ is not independent of presidential control; (2) the Congress cannot rely upon the DOJ to enforce laws as the DOJ is not independent of presidential control. By Constitutional design, presidential power is limited power. For example, laws can be enacted via veto override, and the president cannot declare war. Further, the president can be removed from office by Congress. Presidential immunity is fiction or trivial: the Supreme Court analysis relies on a theory that some acts performed by a president cannot be performed with criminal intent (not are not, but cannot). Vernon V Chatman III UET Contradicts the Consitution

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