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Chuck Grassley: “The President has the least constitutional authority when he acts against the express or implied will of Congress?”

On the recordJanuary 22, 2013
The President has the least constitutional authority when he acts against the express or implied will of Congress?
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Grassley questions the limits of presidential authority under Youngstown.

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