Powers of the President
“The powers of the President are immense, but they are not absolute. That principle applies to the current President just as it applied to his predecessors.
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“President Nixon erred in asserting that ‘when the President does it, that means it is not illegal.’ And President Trump was equally mistaken when he declared he had ‘the right to do whatever I want as president.’
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“The Constitution always matches power with constraint. That is true even of powers vested exclusively in the chief executive.” — The Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary; Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, p. 44
Cynthia Sousa Machado and Sam Machado
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