Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶432

To be clear, Congress of course maintains the ultimate power over how broadly or narrowly to write statutes in the foreign policy and national security contexts. For example, Congress can write foreign affairs statutes narrowly. Indeed, even for wartime powers, Congress rarely gives the President a “blank check.” Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U. S. 507, 536 (2004) (plurality opinion). And when Congress writes a narrow foreign affairs statute, this Court has enforced those statutory limits as written. Cf. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U. S. 557, 593–595 (2006); id., at 638–639 (Kennedy, J., concurring in part).

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