WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has condemned Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim immigrants as “disqualifying” and “toxic.” But some legal experts say President Barack Obama may have only himself to blame if a President Trump ever succeeds in putting his plan, or some version of it, into action.
Obama’s years of working around Congress have made the aggressive use of executive power, particularly on immigration, an increasingly effective and politically accepted presidential tool.
Legal scholars are divided on whether Obama has accelerated or merely continued the decades-long drift of power toward the executive branch. But there’s little debate that he’s paved a path for his successor to pick up the go-it-alone strategy he left off.
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