Beryl Howell: “The chilling effect of this executive order ... threatens to significantly undermine the integrity of our entire legal…”

The President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law.

An American President is not a king.

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.

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.