war powers

At least back then, the verbal denigration was being done under the president’s war powers.

His suit also questioned Trump’s assertion that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave him war powers to arrest and deport “hostile” aliens.

“I think the intrusion upon the war powers and foreign policy powers of the president is utterly unprecedented,” Ensign said.

But then the alleged isolationist peacenik Donald Trump has been itching to use war powers since he became president the first time.

In February 2022, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich released a legal opinion claiming the state was under “invasion” by violent cartels and could invoke war powers to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border.