Also part of a general pattern of extending the powers of the executive branch by pushing at flexible boundaries. The tariff brouhaha, e.g., is legally based on ‘national security’, an issue scarcely in sight in practice, now being rendered inoperative as a limiting criterion.
It would be interesting to enumerate the powers that the President is now free to exercise. Start wars, order nuclear attacks, assassinate citizens in foreign locales, torture and imprison non-nationals deemed enemies of the state, arbitrarily abrogate and impose international arrangements, restrict entry of members of specific ethnic and religious groups, permanently remove masses of children from contact with their families: in sum, if rather weakly put, deprive ‘persons’ of life, liberty, and property without due process of law… Already an impressive list.