Court Opinion

ID: 9428474
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:23:55.649782+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:13.672203
License: Public Domain

Justice Blackmun,
concurring.
There is some force, I feel, in Justice Brennan’s observations, post, at 312-318, that today’s decision cannot be reconciled fully with all the reasoning of Zemel v. Rusk, 381 U. S. 1 (1965), and, particularly, of Kent v. Dulles, 357 U. S. 116 (1958), and that the Court is cutting back somewhat upon the opinions in those cases sub silentio. I would have preferred to haveQhe Court disavow forthrightly the aspects of Zemel and Kent that may suggest that evidence of a longstanding Executive policy or construction in this area is not probative of the issue of congressional authorization^ Nonetheless, believing this is what the Court in effect has done, I join its opinion.