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as a body voted to terminate ’s emergency declaration—an explicit, formal rebuke that temporarily denied him the statutory emergency authorities he claimed—but Senate leadership did not ultimately str...
Presidential emergency powers have been used repeatedly in recent years to advance domestic policy objectives without new legislation, most notably by President Trump for a southern border wall and en...
The United States can and has authorized sanctions on foreign judges and international court staff by using a delegation of presidential emergency powers—primarily the International Emergency Economic...
The United States has historically used a mix of executive freezes, statutory vesting, judicial forfeiture, sanctions, and international cooperation to immobilize and—at times—convert foreign assets a...
Presidential orders aimed at drug cartels have primarily cited national-emergency and sanctions statutes — notably the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the National Emergencies ...
Congress has several legislative levers it can use to prompt review or to overturn executive actions: appropriations riders that withhold funds or bar agency actions; the Congressional Review Act (CRA...
The supplied analyses collectively claim that the Supreme Court is poised to decide whether the president can use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs, and that re...
A president cannot unilaterally “open” or create new appropriations for the government under the National Emergencies Act; the Act can make certain statutory powers available and has been used to redi...