The Return of Pen-and-Phone Constitutionalism
Posted on AllSides August 12th, 2020
From The Right
OPINION
President Trump’s executive actions for COVID relief offer little relief but are constitutionally dangerous.
On Saturday, President Trump put his name to four executive actions — three presidential memoranda and one executive order — intended to offer some relief to Americans dealing with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The premise of these actions, made explicit in the text of each, was that Congress had failed to act and now the chief executive has to step in. It is a premise fundamentally at odds with the logic of our...
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