“The fun part is that Yoo frames this as ‘making it easy for presidents to break the law,’” tweeted journalist David Dayen “and Trump jumps on it and says ‘yes let’s do that.’”
According to Axios, which broke the news of the new White House strategy Sunday evening, the president is relying on a legal argument in an article Yoo wrote in June for the National Review after the Supreme Court’s Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California ruling. Continue reading.