Despite the establishment media's declarations that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland provided the smoking gun proving that President Donald Trump conditioned military aid to Ukraine on its government investigating the energy company Burisma and the 2016 election, Sondland soon told us this was merely his "Presumption."
We already knew from the transcript of the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that aid being conditional on investigating the Bidens was a stretch, certainly nothing near the evidence that would be needed in any respectable court.
The one for whom they work - as advisers whose advice the president is entitled to heed or ignore, or anything in between, at will.
Georgetown law professor for more than 50 years and ex-State Department attorney Don Wallace, Jr., in an article entitled "The President's Exclusive Foreign Affairs Powers Over Foreign Aid," noted GOP President Dwight Eisenhower declaring, "As president I have taken an oath to defend the Constitution. I therefore oppose any change which will impair the president's traditional authority to conduct foreign affairs."
The court described them as "The very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the president as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations - a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress but which, of course, like every other governmental power, must be exercised in subordination to the applicable provisions of the Constitution."
The court's reasoning was that, without it getting into the details, the Constitution gives the president full power to conduct foreign policy in stating at the beginning of Article II, section 2 that "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States."
The question of whether this or that private presidential conversation - listened in on at remote locations by a veritable army of bureaucrats - contains untoward assertions or requests is secondary to another question: How can any president possibly act effectively as "The sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations" not requiring "As a basis for its exercise an act of Congress" if those listening can run to a politically hostile Congress with their accusations of impropriety?
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/11/22/sondlands-presumptions-and-all-the-presidents-powers/
We already knew from the transcript of the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that aid being conditional on investigating the Bidens was a stretch, certainly nothing near the evidence that would be needed in any respectable court.
The one for whom they work - as advisers whose advice the president is entitled to heed or ignore, or anything in between, at will.
Georgetown law professor for more than 50 years and ex-State Department attorney Don Wallace, Jr., in an article entitled "The President's Exclusive Foreign Affairs Powers Over Foreign Aid," noted GOP President Dwight Eisenhower declaring, "As president I have taken an oath to defend the Constitution. I therefore oppose any change which will impair the president's traditional authority to conduct foreign affairs."
The court described them as "The very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the president as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations - a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress but which, of course, like every other governmental power, must be exercised in subordination to the applicable provisions of the Constitution."
The court's reasoning was that, without it getting into the details, the Constitution gives the president full power to conduct foreign policy in stating at the beginning of Article II, section 2 that "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States."
The question of whether this or that private presidential conversation - listened in on at remote locations by a veritable army of bureaucrats - contains untoward assertions or requests is secondary to another question: How can any president possibly act effectively as "The sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations" not requiring "As a basis for its exercise an act of Congress" if those listening can run to a politically hostile Congress with their accusations of impropriety?
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/11/22/sondlands-presumptions-and-all-the-presidents-powers/
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