The Supreme Court spent its just-completed term sidelining Congress and amassing power for the ascendant branches of government: the presidency and the court itself. Why it matters: As the court strips Congress of its power, decisions over people's money, jobs, votes and health shift toward the president and nine justices appointed for life. - After this term, Congress can't insulate regulators from the president, limit political parties' spending or require race-conscious voting districts . The big picture: For decades, conservative lawyers have argued the Constitution grants all executive power to one person: the president. - The theory, called the unitary executive, holds that no one who enforces federal law is independent of the…
State of the Union: The court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in only one of the three decisions Monday. The post Supreme Court Curbs Presidential Power in Major Rulings appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Supreme Court issued rulings Monday morning in three high-profile cases as it approaches the end of its current term, siding against the Trump administration in two of the decisions. The court ruled 5–4 in Watson v. Republican National Committee that Mississippi’s grace period for mail-in ballots postmarked by election day but received within five days afterwards will be allowed to stand through at least the midterm elections. The Trump administration had challenged the law, passed by Mississippi’s GOP-controlled legislature. The court found that the Constitution places election regulations in the hands of states rather than the federal government. It also blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to remove Federal…Open