> just happen to agree with the specific logic used in that instance
That's a very biased take.
I think someone else said it better: what both the "progressive" and the "neocons" want is "a CCP-style political system as long as they're the ones in control" where "concepts like separation of powers and rule of law are merely obstacles to smash through on their road to utopia"
It's very rare than unconstitutional power grants are clawed back, so personally I see what's happening right now as a good precedent: it says the executive and the administration can't just wish into existence new laws or power grants: they have to operate within their existing bounds.
Deductive logic is totally applicable here. Otherwise, it gives you a situation where a president believes he can legally become judge, jury and executioner through executive order (pun intended) and order the army to execute US citizens by birthright through drone strikes.
Just because they are enemy combatants or some other convenient legal fiction doesn't make it a-ok.
That's a very biased take.
I think someone else said it better: what both the "progressive" and the "neocons" want is "a CCP-style political system as long as they're the ones in control" where "concepts like separation of powers and rule of law are merely obstacles to smash through on their road to utopia"
It's very rare than unconstitutional power grants are clawed back, so personally I see what's happening right now as a good precedent: it says the executive and the administration can't just wish into existence new laws or power grants: they have to operate within their existing bounds.
Deductive logic is totally applicable here. Otherwise, it gives you a situation where a president believes he can legally become judge, jury and executioner through executive order (pun intended) and order the army to execute US citizens by birthright through drone strikes.
Just because they are enemy combatants or some other convenient legal fiction doesn't make it a-ok.