As he battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesn't have.
"It's not that the president does't have a remarkable amount of power to respond to a public health crisis. It's that these are not the powers he has," said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in constitutional and national security law.First it was Trump's assertion that he could force governors to reopen their economies before they felt ready.
"Getting the nation back to work, back to sporting events, back to churches, back to restaurants, and doing so safely and responsibly is the president's shared goal with governors and the private sector, but the cure cannot be worse than the disease," Deere said. "What has limited Trump previously? Not very much. So I think he will do whatever seems to be in his best interest at any particular moment," Dallek said.
"I think one of the real ironies of this entire moment is that the president actually has a remarkable array of powers that he hasn't brought to bear. All the while he continues to claim stunning powers that he doesn't have," he said. "He's still trying to wield his often outrageous interpretations of the law as a cudgel to bludgeon others," said Joshua Geltzer, founding executive director of the Institute for constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center.
While Congress could pass legislation further regulating social media platforms, Trump "has no such authority," said former federal judge Michael McConnell, who now directs Stanford Law School's constitutional Law Center. "He is just venting."
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