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DOJ promotes a conception of separation-of-powers principles that gets these constitutional commands exactly backwards.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, Plaintiff, v. Donald F. McGahn II, Defendant (2019)

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I have dedicated my career to public service because I love this country and our Constitution and the rights that make us free.

I am acutely aware that, as a judge in our system, I have limited power, and I am trying in every case to stay in my lane.

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House committees have both Article III standing and a cause of action to pursue judicial enforcement of their duly authorized and legally enforceable requests for information.

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Stated simply: The Court has now declared for the first time in history that the most powerful official in the United States can (under circumstances yet to be fully determined) become a law unto himself. As we enter this uncharted territory, the People, in their wisdom, will need to remain ever attentive, consistently fulfilling their established role in our constitutional democracy, and thus collectively serving as the ultimate safeguard against any chaos spawned by this Court’s decision. For, like our democracy, our Constitution is “the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

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