Alexander Hamilton would be worried, too - John Yoo

Alexander Hamilton would be worried, too

Faced with President Trump's executive orders suspending immigration from several Muslim nations and ordering the building of a border wall, and his threats to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, even Alexander Hamilton, our nation's most ardent proponent of executive power, would be worried by now.

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Yes, that's right folks, this article on executive overreach is written by none other than John Yoo, author of the Bush torture memos. What does he have to say?

As an official in the Justice Department, I followed in Hamilton’s footsteps, advising that President George W. Bush could take vigorous, perhaps extreme, measures to protect the nation after the Sept. 11 attacks, including invading Afghanistan, opening the Guantánamo detention center and conducting military trials and enhanced interrogation of terrorist leaders. Likewise, I supported President Barack Obama when he drew on this source of constitutional power for drone attacks and foreign electronic surveillance.

But even I have grave concerns about Mr. Trump’s uses of presidential power.

There you have it, America. Even John Yoo, who thought indefinitely detaining and waterboarding prisoners at Guantanamo was just peachy, has "grave concerns" about Trump's use of executive power.