{"id":1576,"date":"2023-12-12T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print\/whose-constitutional-authority-is-it-anyway-nondelegation-the-national-emergencies-act-and-the-international-emergency-economic-powers-act\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:36","slug":"whose-constitutional-authority-is-it-anyway-nondelegation-the-national-emergencies-act-and-the-international-emergency-economic-powers-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-21-issue-2-summer-2023\/whose-constitutional-authority-is-it-anyway-nondelegation-the-national-emergencies-act-and-the-international-emergency-economic-powers-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Constitutional Authority Is It Anyway? Nondelegation, the National Emergencies Act, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">In June of 2019, the Supreme Court decided <span class=\"s2\"><i>Gundy v. United States <\/i><\/span>and upheld as constitutional Congress\u2019s delegation of legislative authority to the United States Attorney General to determine how to apply the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act\u2019s registration requirements to offenders convicted before the statute was enacted.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>In a dissenting opinion, Justice Gorsuch suggested the Court replace its current \u201cintelligible principle\u201d test for nondelegation issues.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Instead, he argued, the Court should only uphold delegations in three instances: when an agency is merely authorized to \u201cfill up the details,\u201d when the application of a statutory rule depends on executive fact-finding, or when the matter is already within the executive\u2019s constitutional purview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Three months later, in October of 2019, President Donald J. Trump imposed sanctions on individuals associated with the Government of Turkey and its operations in Syria following his declaration of a national emergency to address the national-security threat of Turkey\u2019s military offensive into northeast Syria.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>These sanctions prohibited United States financial institutions from lending money, transferring credit, and transacting with these individuals; blocked their property in the United States; and prohibited United States persons from investing in and importing goods and services from the sanctioned individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Whose-Constitutional-Authority-Is-It-Anway_Wolff.pdf\">Whose Constitutional Authority Is It Anyway? 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