The previous week, we were in District Court arguing that the president didn't have the authority. We were asking for preliminary injunction to stop it from going into effect. And our argument was simple. The president doesn't have any statutory authority or constitutional authority to make up law. That is completely in the power of our congressman. We won at the district court level. We then won at the 5th Circuit twice, because they tried to stop us twice. (18:17–18:23)
CLAIM
Asserts that the President lacks authority to unilaterally create laws.
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