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1-12-2026

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President Donald Trump’s decision to invade Venezuela and oust its president puts a spotlight on a USSupreme Court case that famously blocked President Harry Truman’s seizure of American steel mills. Thecase highlights the tension among presidential aggrandizement, Congress’s war powers, and the (oftensecret) legal opinions undergirding a president’s ambitions

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