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Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by PeterisP on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:43AM (#13530899)
"An EO conflicts/doesn't conflict the statute" is a decision that only the judiciary branch is qualified to make, not you or the president. If judiciary and president disagrees about whether something is a valid law or a violation of the law, the judiciary branch is right by definition.
Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:24PM (#13534845)
> "An EO conflicts/doesn't conflict the statute" is a decision that only the judiciary branch is qualified to make, not you or the president.

Incorrect. It's a question that only the judiciary is empowered to authoritatively resolve [0]. Were questions of Constitutionality (and whether or not an executive act is both grounded in statute and not prohibited by another statute is, given the Constitutional roles ofmthe legislative and executive branch, ultimately one of the Constitutionality of the act) not one on which the President (and various other officials) were qualified by virtue of their office alone to decide and act on prior to judicial resolution, oaths to the Constitution and/or laws such as those taken by the President and other public officials would be meaningless.

[0] Except that Congress may also do so, but only in the context of impeachment proceedings based on the purported illegality and without binding effect outside the specific proceeding in which it makes the determination. But its decision in such a case is final and unreviewable.

Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by cookiecaper on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:02PM (#13532509)
Agreed. So why is the former acting AG's conduct justified?