John Yoo thus misreads Hamilton badly if he takes Hamilton’s statements concerning the President’s “executive Power” and Commander-in-Chief Clause power as embracing a power to initiate ...

Later in the week, my friend John Yoo responded with an essay arguing that Trump’s Syria Strike Was Constitutional. I’m carrying the debate forward in this space, in a series of posts.

In his book and on this show, John Yoo argues the opposite: that the Founders would have seen Trump as returning to their vision of presidential power, even at his most controversial and outrageous.