The President Who Would Be King

President Donald J Trump’s administration has been invoking a conservative legal theory as justification for his claim to possess king-like presidential powers.

This new supercharged version of the unitary executive theory’ may just be extreme enough to stick in the craw of some conservative judges.

Dahlia Lithwick's guest this week is Deepak Gupta , former senior counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and founding principal of Gupta Wessler LLP .