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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
California Asks Judge to Limit ‘Unchecked' Use of Trump Troops
California said the Trump administration 's deployment of the National Guard and US Marines to respond to protests in Los Angeles was illegal and cannot continue 'unchecked.' Attorneys for Governor Gavin Newsom and California urged a federal judge to limit military involvement in the protests in a court filing Thursday. They argued that allowing the deployment to continue over the state's objections would set a dangerous precedent and afford the president an 'astonishingly broad grant of executive authority.'
Wall Street Journal
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Trump Tries to Tip the Balance of Powers
Since taking office this year, President Trump has forcefully asserted control over the federal bureaucracy and administrative agencies, backed by the 'unitary executive' theory developed by conservative scholars since the 1980s—the idea that the president has complete authority over the executive branch. This alone would be a massive expansion of presidential power. But Mr. Trump demands more: an executive that's not only unitary but plenipotentiary, dominant over the other branches of government. 'When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total, and that's the way it's got to be,' he told reporters at a Covid-19 press briefing in 2020. Stephen Miller, one of his most powerful aides, recently said that the president is 'the only official in the government that is elected by the entire nation' and that 'the whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president.'
