FOIA.
The Justice Department is advancing a radical theory of presidential power, nullifying Congress’s foreign affairs powers whenever the president finds them inconvenient.
These letters provide a legal rationale (if it can be called that) for the Trump administration’s commitment not to enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACAA), the divestment-or-ban law that the Supreme Court upheld in January. The letters make two central claims, both of which are astonishing in their breadth and implications for executive power.
- Akamai Technologies
- Amazon
- Apple Inc.
- Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
- Fastly, Inc.
- Google, Inc.
- LG Electronics USA, Inc.
- Microsoft Corporation
- Oracle Corporation
- T-Mobile US, Inc.
It can be hard to guess who to bribe, or how big each bribe should be?