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The U.S. executive branch could be limited in potential power

By Hicbd
Thu May 21 2020 4:20 pm

"This led the American magazine The Atlantic to observe that 'the misuse of emergency powers is a standard gambit among leaders attempting to consolidate power', because, in the words of Justice Robert H. Jackson's dissent in Korematsu v. United States, the 1944 Supreme Court decision that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans, each emergency power 'lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.'"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory#Criticism_of_the_strong_version_of_the_theory
https://web.archive.org/web/20200401071344/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/constitutional-myth-3-the-unitary-executive-is-a-dictator-in-war-and-peace/239627/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/opinion/executive-power-run-amok.html

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U.S. Government U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Constitution U.S. National Emergencies U.S. Executive Branch / President U.S. Government Corruption / Oversight / Ethics / Institutional Capture

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