Sometimes when running through seemingly settled arguments, we can’t see the forest of clarity for the trees of minutia thanks to bumping our faces into their distracting limbs.

So, before we get to those trees, let us look at that forest.

There can be debate over the advisability of when to use the following presidential prerogative, but never its codified existence in our founding document.

Every president has the unassailable (albeit sometimes perilous) constitutional option to use the functionality and mechanics of his branch’s “separated powers” to leverage his “check” against what he believes to be an unconstitutional encroachment upon those powers by any component of the judiciary.

Furthermore, he can do so even as the dispute makes its way through the appellate process. …

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