someone please help me out here. where in the US constitution is a president given explicit powers to order any court, state or federal, to do anything ?
Article II, Section 3: "..,he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,..."
Article VI:"...;and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
Article II, Section 2: "The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;..."
So the president has to enforce the laws, treaties are binding laws, but the courts have the right to decide what the laws and treaties mean.
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