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    Balance of Power

    Trump is dissolving Congress in plain sight, and immigration's a top example

    David Hernández
    April 10, 2020
    President Trump signs executive order

    President Trump has been enabled by the Supreme Court, which has given the green light to his practice of governing through fiat, proclamations and executive orders, writes professor David Hernández.

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    Hernández is on leave this semester as an associate professor of Latina and Latino studies at Mount Holyoke College.

    The Trump administration's power grab during the new coronavirus pandemic is well underway.

    But even before the Covid-19 outbreak, President Trump was out-maneuvering the principal obligations of Congress — funding and providing oversight of the executive branch, and setting policy through legislation — by deploying executive orders, rule changes, fee schedules and international agreements to minimize the power of the legislative branch during his presidency.

    The clearest and most calculated form of this congressional suspension can be found in immigration policy-making, seeking to change the flow of migration to this country while altering the democratic system of checks and balances.

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