Reading Room Document
Whether there is any legal impediment to the President delegating to the Secretary of State the authority to sign warrants of extradition agents
The document is a response to a letter regarding the delegation of authority to the Secretary of State to sign warrants of extradition agents on behalf of the President. The conclusion reached is that there is no legal impediment to the President delegating the authority to the Secretary, either to physically sign the warrants or to issue and sign them. The document also presents the question of whether the President would continue to exercise any decision-making function relating to the issuance of the warrants, and if the form of the warrant would need to be revised to show that it is issued by the Secretary rather than the President.
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