Judge invalidates parts of executive orders on unions

August 25, 201810:28 PM ET
BOBBY ALLYN

... U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled late Friday that the orders exceeded the president's authority.

Jackson wrote in her opinion that the president can issue executive orders over labor-management relations, but not if executive actions conflict with collective bargaining rights guaranteed under federal law.

"And because many of the executive order provisions that the unions challenge here have that effect, this court concludes that the President has overstepped his bounds," Jackson wrote in her 119-page opinion.

Labor leaders celebrated the ruling as an affirmation of the judiciary's ability to check executive action that goes too far ...

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/25/641942448/judge-invalidates-key-parts-of-trumps-executive-orders-on-unions