President Donald Trump and the judiciary's conflicts are coming to a head

President Donald Trump and the courts are each testing their limits and the conflict is getting more heated.

John Yoo is a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Civic Leadership and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, the Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Part of the blame for this executive-judicial conflict also rests with the Trump administration’s unprecedented use of the Alien Enemies Act. The act authorizes the president to detain and expel aliens of "a hostile nation or government" with which the United States is in a "declared war" or by which it has suffered an "invasion or predatory incursion." The United States had only used the act during the declared War of 1812 and World Wars I and II.