Illiterates! How about Art. VI, Cl. 2?
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Maybe, maybe not — the Executive Order or the federal statute or both could be unconstitutional.
“Its primary focus was on the question of whether an executive order issued by the president could trump a federal statute.”
The question goes to the very root of Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America. You citation is at the core of what Obama is unilaterally changing about the structure of this government.