Analysis: Trump thinks he's been given vast new powers. Now he's going to use them

When he announced he was signing executive actions, which he kept referring to interchangeably with law, no reporters had read them.

One executive action he signed, which Democrats are sure to fight in court, would extend expanded unemployment benefits at as much as $400 per week -- 25% of which states are being asked to cover -- instead of the $600 per week Democrats wanted and the $200 per week Senate Republicans suggested.

The leverage part didn't really work, and the Supreme Court said Trump violated his authority by trying to end it.

However, it is that same Supreme Court decision, which respected Obama's authority to enact the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that now has conservative lawyers arguing Trump has more power than you can possibly comprehend.

Here's one idea and the pieces fit perfectly.

Trump can do things that are illegal or unconstitutional, according to the UC Berkeley professor John Yoo, who is known for his creative interpretations of the law.

"According to Chief Justice Roberts, the Constitution makes it easy for presidents to violate the law, but reversing such violations difficult — especially for their successors," Yoo wrote in National Review.

Yoo, most famous for writing the so-called torture memos, met recently with Trump in the Oval Office to discuss the theory, according to the Washington Post.

And he aped the argument during a recent Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, where he said he'd be doing some very exciting things in the near future because the Supreme Court gave him new powers.

The Affordable Care Act already does that, but Trump wants credit for it and he also wants to undo the Affordable Care Act.

Here's what he said to Wallace in the interview.

We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do.

So we're going to solve -- we're going to sign an immigration plan, a health care plan and various other plans.

But the decision by the Supreme Court on DACA allows me to do things on immigration, on health care, on other things that we've never done before.

But it's clear Trump has taken the opposite lesson away from the Supreme Court.