The Supreme Court justices are more willing to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional than to strike down presidential actions as contradicting the U.S. Constitution. Why is this the case? When have the Supreme Court justices checked presidential power in the past?
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The president only has authority over the executive branch, so his executive orders are good until proven wrong. They don't apply to anybody outside the executive branch, although they can be accepted as evidence of law as long as they don't violate any other law. A lot of people don't know that.