Scholars slap down Trump's claim that Supreme Court's DACA ruling gives him added powers
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision that he unlawfully ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, impeached president Donald Trump didn’t then reopen it to the hundreds of thousands of new applicants he’s blocked since trying tScholars slap down Trump's claim that Supreme Court's DACA ruling gives him added powers
Following the Supreme Court’s decision that he unlawfully ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, impeached president Donald Trump didn’t then reopen it to the hundreds of thousands of new applicants he’s blocked since trying to end it. Instead he claimed the decision “gave the president of the United States powers that nobody thought the president had” to act on things like health care, voting, and immigration. I’ll begin with this: what the fuck is he talking about? “The source of Trump’s recent bravado” links to Bush era official John “Torture Memos” Yoo, who apparently in some writings “contends [the DACA decision] allows presidents to take even unlawful actions that can require years of legal battles to undo,”The Washington Post reports. Um ... okay? Look, I’m not a constitutional scholar here, so let’s turn to Laurence Tribe, who actually is one at Harvard University, and told The Post what he thinks about Yoo’s theory: “I think he must be on some kind of drug.” Read more