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- Illegal vs Unconstitutional - Politics Stack Exchange
In U S politics what is the difference between something being illegal vs unconstitutional? My current understanding (as a non-US person): Wouldn't something illegal automatically be unconstitu
- “We Believe We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Law Professors and Law . . .
News and Updates February 26, 2025 “We Believe We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Law Professors and Law Teachers Stand Against Administration's Illegal and Unconstitutional Actions More than 1,000 law scholars from around the country have signed on to a bipartisan letter decrying President Trump’s slew of illegal executive orders and
- What is an Executive Order and What Legal Weight Does it Carry?
This would encroach on Congress’s constitutional authority to make the law, thereby violating what is known as the Separation of Powers doctrine Such an executive order would therefore be unlawful and unconstitutional because the President lacked authority to issue the order
- To Save and Not to Destroy: Severability, Judicial Restraint, and the . . .
December 4, 2019 “When a statute is partially unconstitutional, courts must endeavor to save, not destroy, the rest of the law,” explains a new ACS Issue Brief by David Gans, Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center In the issue brief, Gans both sets forth the contours of severability law and shows how some
- Profiting off the Presidency: Trump’s Violations of the Emoluments . . .
The Framers of the Constitution were acutely aware of the dangers presented by foreign influence on the president
- Trump’s Unconstitutional View of Presidential Power
During an evening news briefing on Monday night, President Trump declared that he, and not individual governors and mayors, would make the decision about when and how to reopen the country Explaining his authority by stating that “ [w]hen somebody’s president of the United States, the authority is total,” President Trump claimed vast executive powers in relation to the ongoing fight
- Why are American Juvenile Curfew Laws not Unconstitutional?
4 Many jurisdictions in the United States have curfew laws, which prohibit youth of a certain age (usually under 18) from being in public or in a business establishment during certain hours Given the fact that the United States Constitution protects citizens' freedom of movement, how are Curfew Laws not unconstitutional?
- How the Supreme Court Created a Constitutional Case Against the . . .
One of the Supreme Court’s first cases in October threatens to unsettle the power of federal agencies to implement laws through regulation In the first week of the Supreme Court's upcoming term, the justices will hear argument in a case asserting that a federal statute is unconstitutional because it gives an official in the executive branch insufficiently precise instructions about how to
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