Ahsim Nreiziev
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

This assertion is simply inaccurate. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches have equal power.

They may have equal power Legally, aka de jure — that’s what that term means: “de jure” is “according to the Law”. But Zunger also mentioned de facto power, which is the power the President actually has, regardless of what the Law says. If the President decides that the Army or some other armed forces like the CBP, need to enforce some ruling he has decreed, regardless of whether the Courts have struck down that order….. what de facto power, exactly, do the Courts have to stop said armed forces from doing the President’s bidding? Or, to put it another way: how, practically speaking, can they enforce armed forces who answer to the President to do their bidding instead, like the Law requires them to do?

    Ahsim Nreiziev

    Written by