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Baron2024

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Mon Feb 10, 2025, 05:20 PM Feb 2025

Opinion Piece From The Hill On Possible Dissent In The Supreme Court

Excerpt from the article--

"It seems that hardly a day goes by, or maybe even an hour, without President Trump issuing another unprecedented executive order.

It is a toss-up which is the worst — attempting to abolish birthright citizenship, firing inspectors general without notice to Congress, freezing government spending for essential programs, imposing a gag on health care agencies — but they will no doubt keep coming.

An executive order is the president’s directive to enforce or interpret the law in a particular way, under Article II of the Constitution, which vests the “executive power” in “a President of the United States of America.”

Executive orders are nonetheless subject to statutory and constitutional law. Thus, lawsuits have already challenged some of Trump’s orders, in several cases leading to preliminary injunctions that have not yet been reviewed by higher courts.

We can therefore hope that the Supreme Court will be the backstop to at least some of Trump’s most extreme measures."

Link to the entire article--

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-barrett-recusal-signals-hope-163000370.html

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Opinion Piece From The Hill On Possible Dissent In The Supreme Court (Original Post) Baron2024 Feb 2025 OP
Not if Clarence Thomas wants another nice vacation. Swede Feb 2025 #1
Hey his law clerks work hard for his luxury vacations. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #2

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