of japanese extraction, most of them americane citizens. in writing about that case, justice robert jackson said, emergency powers are like a loaded weaponre laying there waiting for someone to pick it up.k it s still laying there. and the president could very well say i tried in this speech tonightn the soft approach. now i have to resort to the powers thatso i have. andt i think people would be astonished if they understood the vast discretion that congress has rashly, in my judgment, often from sloth, often fromdg inattention, have given toti executives of all powers. of all parties. and, gene, it seemed to me, given george s warning about the emergency power that the president might invoke is still there, it felt like a retreat tonight. it just seemed like such a quiet
national security, so perhaps weti have not heard the last of this. in 19 hav44, the disgraceful cas wherein the supreme court ratified the president s president roosevelt s internment of 100 and some thousand people of japanese extraction, most of them americane citizens. in writing about that case, justice robert jackson said, emergency powers are like a loaded weaponre laying there waiting for someone to pick it up.k it s still laying there. and the president could very well say i tried in this speech tonightn the soft approach. now i have to resort to the powers thatso i have. andt i think people would be astonished if they understood the vast discretion that congress has rashly, in my judgment, often from sloth, often fromdg inattention, have given toti executives of all powers. of all parties.
of japanese extraction, most of them americane citizens. in writing about that case, justice robert jackson said, emergency powers are like a loaded weaponre laying there waiting for someone to pick it up.k it s still laying there. and the president could very well say i tried in this speech tonightn the soft approach. now i have to resort to the powers thatso i have. andt i think people would be astonished if they understood the vast discretion that congress has rashly, in my judgment, often from sloth, often fromdg inattention, have given toti executives of all powers. of all parties. and, gene, it seemed to me, given george s warning about the emergency power that the president might invoke is still there, it felt like a retreat tonight. it just seemed like such a quiet inconsequential nine minutes of trump time that it felt like