This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Rasu.
Today, how much power can a US President have?
We are now one month into President Trump's second term,
and he's signed at least 70 executive orders.
His first few weeks back in office have been marked by big moves made quickly,
from pardoning 1500 January 6th rioters to attempting to stop all foreign aid,
to mass firings and buyouts to shrink the number of federal employees.
Many of the administration's actions have been challenged in court as illegal or unconstitutional,
and judges have ordered some policies paused while lawsuits work their way through the courts.
The question at the heart of almost all these cases is, does a president have the power to do this?
Should they?
Executive power has been expanding over recent decades,
but what Trump has really attempted to do in the last few weeks is push things much further.
That's Ankush Kadori, a senior writer with Politico magazine and a former federal prosecutor.
Ankush says the ways
in which Trump is testing the boundaries of executive power could fundamentally reshape the office of the presidency
and its balance with Congress and the federal courts.
Trump is really trying to take all of this to sort of a new level,
and I think also what is quite distinctive is he's moving