Checking A Presidential Bully

Checking A Presidential Bully


[This is a guest blog from a friend and colleague, Abner S. Greene, who is the Leonard F. Manning Professor at Fordham Law School and has been following the constitutional separation-of-powers issues at the heart of many of the current cases involving the scope of President Trump's powers for many years.] I, § 7 ("Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. at 883 n.1 (Kagan, J., dissenting) ("A stay pending appeal is an "extraordinary" remedy"; "The applicant … bears the "especially heavy" burden of proving that such relief is warranted"; "Our stay standard asks (1) whether the applicant is likely to succeed on the merits, and (2) whether the likelihood of irreparable harm to the applicant, the balance of equities, and the public interest weigh in favor of granting a stay.

Author: David Post


Published at: 2025-05-31 20:09:11

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