1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

The claim that the President has the power to exempt companies from complying with duly enacted laws is an alarming overreach of executive authority. Our system of government is founded on the principle of checks and balances, with the legislature responsible for crafting laws and the executive branch tasked with faithfully executing them. Asserting a so-called "dispensing power" to selectively nullify acts of Congress undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution. This purported authority lacks any legal basis and directly contradicts well-established Supreme Court precedent. Even the English monarchy, from which our system derives, had the dispensing power stripped away through the Bill of Rights of 1689, recognizing its fundamental threat to democratic governance. To claim such a sweeping prerogative now is not only historically inaccurate but deeply injurious to our democratic norms and institutions. I urge you to defend the Constitution and our system of checks and balances by rejecting this alarming assertion of unconstrained presidential power. The faithful execution of laws, not their unilateral nullification, is the President's sworn duty. Preserving this foundational principle is essential to upholding the integrity of our republic and preventing a dangerous consolidation of power in the executive branch.