Constitutional Law
Mar. 8, 2017
The 'very apex' of presidential powers
With the replacement immigration order on Monday, we have, if not quite in the sense Justice Jackson anticipated, entered the twilight zone.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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At "the very apex of presidential powers" is how Stephen Miller, advisor to Donald J. Trump, described Trump's constitutional prerogatives vis-à-vis the judicial branch, when previously addressing the president's first executive order banning immigration from selective countries. The president withdrew that order after a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court's ruling temporarily striking it down.
Miller was at least partially alluding to Justice Robe...
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