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It sends chills down my spine when you say that if the president in his view has the position that an individual, or an entity, or a company is operating a way that is not in the nation’s interest, he can issue an executive order like this.
The chilling effect of this executive order ... threatens to significantly undermine the integrity of our entire legal system.
The president cannot bring the federal government down on his political opponents ... as he has done here.
The chilling effect of this executive order, 14230, threatens to significantly undermine the integrity of our entire legal system.
the President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law.
A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
Mr. Trump seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law to test how much the courts will accept the notion of a presidency that is supreme.
The president does not have the authority to terminate members of the National Labor Relations Board at will, and his attempt to fire plaintiff from her position on the Board was a blatant violation of the law.
An American president is not a king — not even an 'elected' one — and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute, but may be constrained in appropriate circumstances, as are present here.