5 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Protests, the Courts and the National Guard
President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles has opened the latest chapter in the long-running debate over the constitutional limits to executive power.
Since George Washington's administration, politicians and courts have wrestled with the same problem the Framers faced: creating a presidential office with enough power to administer the executive branch, enforce the law and lead the nation in war and peril—without giving the president so much power as to endanger the constitutional order and the people's liberties.
