Trump’s allies float a specious theory about treaties

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/01/trump-nato-withdrawal-defended-by-president-allies/

Another dubious attempt to justify aggrandizing power in the executive branch.

 Supporters of the unitary executive theory argue that the vesting of executive power in the president means a presidential monopoly of all power connected in any way to executive duties. John Yoo, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, brings to his advocacy of the unitary executive theory learning that is proportionate to his tenacity. He says:

Yoo says leaving NATO “would certainly be a foreign-policy disaster.” But his theory insists that the Constitution relegates Congress to the role of spectator at the disaster. When a theory drags its adherents into such an intellectual cul-de-sac, the theory should be relegated to the ranks of ideas that need to be reconsidered.