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Government,
Constitutional Law

Apr. 23, 2020

President Trump’s impossible brief?

Yet another constitutional showdown, this time President Donald Trump versus governors over the reopening of America.

Arthur G. Svenson

Professor
University of Redlands

Arthur is David Boies Endowed Chair of Government.

Yet another constitutional showdown, this time President Donald Trump versus governors over the reopening of America. Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that until a number of prerequisites are met his stay-at-home mandate will remain untouched. But the president asserts that the power to reopen America, "the biggest decision I've ever had to make," is a call reserved to the national government, and "the authority of the President of the United States having to do wi...

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