Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶367

Second, IEEPA was not debated and passed in a vacuum in 1977—it was enacted around the same time that Congress significantly constrained executive power in multiple ways in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam. The list of major new statutory restrictions on Presidential power enacted in the 1970s is long and extraordinary, with lasting effects to the present day.

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