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1952 United States Supreme Court case
The Youngstown framework, from Justice Robert Jackson’s 1952 concurrence in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, gives courts a three-tiered test for evaluating presidential authority: when the pres...
The Constitution vests in the President and enumerates specific authorities—Commander in Chief, appointment and treaty roles, pardon power, and the duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully execu...
The Supreme Court and Congress have repeatedly acted to restrain presidential claims of unchecked authority: the Court's rejection of Truman's steel seizure in Youngstown established a lasting framewo...
U.S. courts have produced a mixed jurisprudence on the President’s authority to use military force without explicit congressional authorization: the Supreme Court’s framework in Youngstown and subsequ...