THE HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH LEGAL OPINIONS ON THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FROM WASHINGTON TO OBAMA.The article focuses on the power of U.S. Presidents as commander-in-chief including George Washington, James Buchanan and Barack Obama. Topics discussed include former U.S...
JUAN WILLIAMS
How can we forget the 120,000 Japanese American citizens of coastal California subject to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 of February 19, 1942? These American citizens were forcibly relocated to one of ten concentration camps — euphemistically, “relocation” camps — throughout...
Tom Jawetz, deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security from 2021 to 2022, said courts tend to give deference to the president for executive determinations. But he said this one could be difficult to uphold. “There could be opportunities for legal attack,” he said....
In appointing and overseeing the executive branch, presidents often reward loyalty and support over other qualifications. This practice can open the door to opportunists, who may not always have the president's or the nation's best interests at heart, as President Ulysses Grant discovered. Divided...
A Boston auctioneer is taking bidders out to the ballpark with an auction of a team executive’s Red Sox memorabilia — including four World Series trophies November 21, 2024 at 10:46 PM St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains ...
But in March 1970, postal workers in New York nevertheless went out on strike, defying their own union leadership, and soon workers elsewhere joined them in the largest-ever walkout by federal government employees. Faced with a crisis, the administration of President Richard Nixon dispatched ...
At first, Veterans Day was known asArmistice Day. which was officially recognized in 1919 by President Wilson. In the first couple of years, Armistice Day was generally celebrated with parades, a break from work at 11 a.m., and speeches made by the military and the public to celebrate the...
they are clearly declaring their aims and expectations and elevating our Presidency to Royal or Imperial status with the goal of a “Unitary Executive” beholden not to The Law, not to Congress nor the courts, not to the electorate, not to anything but itself. But it won’t be titled “...
In a Feb. 6 release, AABP officials characterized images in the video as "deplorable." AVMA Executive Vice President Dr. Ron DeHaven responded with an editorial letter to the Washington Post, which broke the story, calling for "the strictest penalties if the allegations are confirmed" and ...