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Executive Branch Fact Deference As A Separation Of Powers Principle, Emily A. Kile Oct 2017

Executive Branch Fact Deference As A Separation Of Powers Principle, Emily A. Kile

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This Note concludes that, although Zivotofsky I provides a basis for judicial review of the legality of the Obama Administration’s “hostilities” determination (and, by extension, other questions of statutory interpretation related to foreign affairs), that review could be blunted by judicial deference to the executive branch’s factual determinations relevant to whether the Libyan airstrikes constituted “hostilities” within the War Powers Resolution. By addressing the political question doctrine’s history and the response to Zivotofsky I, this Note will explore whether the political question doctrine—particularly in cases of statutory interpretation—has lost some of its force as a justiciability doctrine. This Note will …


Void For Vagueness: An Escape From Statutory Interpretation Apr 1948

Void For Vagueness: An Escape From Statutory Interpretation

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