"The President gets to direct his resources as he deems fit and it just seems a little counterintuitive to me that the city of Portland can come in and say no, you need to do it differently,' Nelson said to Oregon's Senior Assistant Attorney General Stacy Chaffin. Now, I understand there's a statute here and we're going to have to review that, but this goes to the level of deference that I think the president is entitled to in these circumstances."
"Nelson took the opportunity in his concurrence to throw long. His concurrence might as well have been a resume dropped on the Resolute desk. Essentially, Nelson ruled that the president may use the military domestically for any reason and that, if the legislative and judicial branches don't like it, they can pound sand. Nelson made his position clear in the arguments before the panel's decision."
A Ninth Circuit panel granted a stay on a lower-court injunction that barred presidential deployment of troops to Portland. The opinion asserted that the president may use the military domestically for any reason and that courts and Congress lack effective means to prevent such deployments. Two of the three panel judges were Trump appointees. The opinion emphasized deference to presidential assessments, including reliance on unseen "behind the scenes" information, and framed executive discretion as sufficient justification even when visible street conditions do not obviously warrant military intervention.
Read at www.esquire.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]