\u3cem\u3eYoungstown\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eHamdan\u3c/em\u3e, and Inherent Emergency Presidential Policymaking Powers

This brief article explores the contribution that Hamdan v Rumsfeld may have made to clarifying what should happen in the large interstices of the rules created by the Youngstown case for determining the validity of claims of Presidential power. It offers its own view of the scope of Presidential powers in extreme emergencies involving the incapacitation of the legislative branch