1.) I have heard a few expert legal minds say the decision does not say what you claim. Should I believe them or you?
2.) As Robert Barnes would say, does a nameless person in an agency in the executive branch have more authority, under the Constitution, than does the President, and requires the President ask for permission to do such and such?
That analysis is bunk. It’s clearly not that executive branch employee who is more powerful than the President, it’s the laws that are more powerful than the President. I agree he’s being unfairly persecuted when compared to others, but laws that govern how the executive branch operates do limit the President.
The examples of this are limitless. I gave one above, that the President cannot order Air Force One, to do illegal things, even though it is an executive branch asset. He can’t order them to try to fly it to the moon, just to see what happens. Their are FAA laws, an executive branch organization, that make that an illegal order.
Another example is sending the US military to the southern border to enforce it. The Posse Comitatus law prevented Trump from doing it. Guess you don’t remember. Yes it would have been great if he could have done that, but he couldn’t legally, even though the military is an Executive Branch function and he was the President.
You can believe as you wish, or you could read the decision and see if it actually says what they claim, or if that is just their interpretation of what the judge said. Since I couldn’t find what they claim in the actual text of the opinion, I assume that is their interpretation of what the judge wrote. But since the case was in district court and was a dismissal and not a judgment on the merits of the claim, the court in Florida is under no obligation to consider it as relevant.