To conservative legal theorists, Constitutional originalism is a tool for restraining democratic checks on Presidential power, but rarely for restraining Presidential power itself.
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What? It absolutely is! Restraints on presidential power are at the core of constitutional originalism since restraints on presidential power are at the core of the Constitution itself.
In its ruling yesterday the Supreme Court went on about this at length. The constitutional order of the US was all about making sure checks and balances would restrain actors including the president.
Conservative legal theorists go on about this pretty regularly.
