The American Bar Association recently updated its new web-based ABA Legal Fact Check by exploring the limits on presidential executive orders.
On Oct. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s revised Executive Order No. 13780 known as the travel ban.
ABA Legal Fact Check looks at the history of these orders, and how they largely went unchecked by the courts until 1952 after President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 10340, which placed all U.S. steel mills under federal control during the Korean War.
Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that President Truman had overstepped his authority because he attempted to make law rather than clarify an existing piece of legislation.
In that decision, Justice Robert Jackson, in a concurring opinion, put forth a three-part test to judge the possible overreach of presidential power that is still relied upon by courts today.
ABA Legal Fact Check, debuted last month and is the first fact check website focusing exclusively on legal matters.
The project is one of several initiatives launched by Hilarie Bass, who became ABA president in August.
ABA Legal Fact Check seeks to help the public find dependable answers and explanations to swirling and sometimes confusing legal questions.
The URL for the new site is www.abalegalfactcheck.com.
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