Beryl Howell: “An American President is not a king.”

The president's efforts here to take over an organization outside of those bounds, contrary to statute established by Congress and by acts of force and threat using local and federal law enforcement officers, represented a gross usurpation…

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.

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.