Jan. 23, 2019
Youngstown and the president’s emergency powers
President Donald Trump has threatened to exercise emergency lawmaking power to construct a $5.7 billion border wall; many legal experts have opined that no such constitutional power exists.
Arthur G. Svenson
Professor
University of Redlands
Arthur is David Boies Endowed Chair of Government.
President Donald Trump has threatened to exercise emergency lawmaking power to construct a $5.7 billion border wall; many legal experts have opined that no such constitutional power exists, citing the landmark 1952 Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer decision as dispositive of the issue. Youngstown addressed the constitutionality of President Harry Truman's executive order seizing the nation's steel mills to av...
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