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Beyond moral rules, the President's power is constrained both by the Constitution and Congress. He is not within his right to issue executive orders that violat
by village-idiot 10y ago
Beyond moral rules, the President's power is constrained both by the Constitution and Congress. He is not within his right to issue executive orders that violate the previous.
- zeroer 10y agoDoes this executive order violate the constitution?
- village-idiot 10y agoIANAL: The constitutionality of this EO is a bit beyond by expertise, but it does appear to me to violate at least one federal law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
- dragonwriter 10y agoAn E.O. which violates Constitutionally-valid statutory restriction on the executive is, ipso facto, a violation of the provision of the Constitution empowering Congress with the authority to control the matter addressed by the statute.
- zeroer 10y agoThe text of the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1152 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1152 That law mentions visa issuance. But Trump is disallowing people with valid visas from coming in. Is it actually illegal? If so, what specifically is the conflict?