The president’s manifest and manifold inadequacies might awaken a slumbering Congress to the existence of its Article I powers and responsibilities. Trump’s policy now is to state that Obama’s policy will expire in six months unless Congress chooses to “legalize” — Trump’s word — it. If Congress does not, Trump will do . Hence Trump has sent this hot-potato issue where it belongs, to Congress, which now faces the unaccustomed agony of actually setting national policy. Instead, as a redundant expression of Obama’s disdain for Congress and the separation of powers, it was submitted to the United Nations, and then to Congress.

Source: Washington Post September 08, 2017 23:26 UTC