It's hard to argue that an executive order exceeds the authority of the executive branch when it reflects decisions that Congress has explicitly and implicitly required the executive branch to make.
Each presidential candidate should be asked if he/she would feel bound by a Bush administration executive agreement of this consequence if it were done on the authority of the executive alone.
However, the union says the deal was completed with "full authority" of its executive council.
The appeals court reversed that finding today and went much further in defining the authority of the executive branch in wartime.
We acknowledge that lifting the detention imposed on these individuals goes beyond the authority of the executive branch in the Islamic Republic.
American constitutional purists decry this state of affairs and hearken to a purported golden age when the war-making authority of the executive branch was carefully constrained by Congressional oversight.
Clauses in certain laws qualified the authority of the executive branch to act by making specified acts subject to disapproval by the majority vote of one or both houses.
Before the vote on the bill last month, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told Congress that the restrictions would be "an extreme and risky encroachment on the authority of the executive branch".
Within the Constitution's separation-of-powers structure, few exercises of judicial power are as legitimate or as necessary as the responsibility to hear challenges to the authority of the Executive to imprison a person.
In addition, Mr. Mangia said, Mr. Moan's side had acknowledged the authority of the executive committee that Mr. Mangia is now running, by voting on Tuesday to void any actions that committee takes.
