Sen. Cotton Slams Ruling on President’s Foreign Policy Authority As ‘Potentially Dangerous’

A Supreme Court ruling this week affirming the president’s exclusive power to recognize foreign nations and governments is “a remarkable and disturbing break with precedent,” especially with President Obama in the White House, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said on Thursday.

 

Reacting to the court’s decision backing the executive branch’s right to refuse to include the word “Israel” on the passports of American citizens born in Jerusalem, Cotton said it had “unwisely and indeterminately expanded the president’s unchecked discretion in the conduct of foreign affairs.”

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