Jonathan Adler in The Free Press
Charter Member Jonathan H. Adler contributed to a recent piece in The Free Press, “Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law? Seven Experts Weigh In.” The article features insights from legal scholars and former government officials as they weigh the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s recent actions.
Adler writes:
The administration’s declaration of unilateral authority to define the contours of American citizenship and deport individuals without affording them the barest degree of due process is a betrayal of constitutional values. Its insistence that the president can simply decree changes in federal law and disregard legislatively enacted constraints on agency authority are assaults on the rule of law. Attempting to force states to align with administration priorities distorts the constitutional structure. The whole point of federalism is that California gets to be California and Texas gets to be Texas. That prior administrations abandoned such principles is not an excuse for more of the same.