COURTS 'INTRUDING SIGNIFICANTLY' ON TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY..

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•  COURTS 'INTRUDING SIGNIFICANTLY' ON TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY HAVE 'BAFFLED' A LEGAL EXPERT.

After a federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order that prevented the Trump administration's plan to buy out federal employees, constitutional law lawyer and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley was left perplexed. 

The offer, Turley said on Tuesday on "Fox & Friends," is "perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president."

In a statement made by Jonathan Turley:

I think that Trump is on very solid ground with the buyout. I'm still a bit baffled by what the court is doing here. If the presidents are allowed to dictate conditions of employees coming into the office, what they're working on, all of that is part of Article II powers of the president controlling the executive branch.

 I'm not, even today, certain what the constitutional problem is. You've got 65,000 employees who were told, look, we'll let you stay at home and look for a job as long as you agree to resign and to give a number of months. They've agreed to it, the government's agreed to it. That seems to me to be perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president. 

So I think he's going to win on that. Congress can make decisions, they're the ones who buy ships, but it is the president that decides who's going to take the ship out and the crew. He can reduce the number of crew members. 

And so, there are different aspects of authority here. I think that the court is really intruding significantly in the president's authority. He's allowed to downsize, and they're allowed due process. They're allowed employment protections, but they're not allowed to permanent employment. 

President Donald Trump ordered government employees to return to their desks, giving them the option to stay or leave.

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