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Does this executive order violate the constitution?

• village-idiot 10y ago
  IANAL: 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 ago
    An 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 ago
    The 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?