Trump snaps back at reporter over his authority to skip courts, claims "no judge can assume the duties of the President"
'That's what the law says': Trump snaps back at reporter over his authority to skip courts
The more important take from this article is that Trump has escalated his claims and now claims that nothing he does is subject to judicial review at all.
The scary part is that there is a non-zero chance that the Supreme Court could rule in his favor. And at that point, God help us all.
If the supreme court agrees, we'll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.
I'm going to assume it does nothing, and all the gun deaths were for nothing.
The second amendment was created to make it impossible for the president to have a standing army.
That was the whole "militia" thing. Federalist Paper 29 covers the entirety of it in like ... 12 paragraphs.
The states would have to require every man to own a firearm and train to be in a militia as designated by Congress that would muster for national defense because armies make empires. And newly created US Americans wanted to be free of imperial horseshit.
The second amendment wasn't to defeat a president who broke bad. Men elected to POTUS were never supposed to be like Trump. And that was our, as US Americans, biggest blindspot. That an American president would never treat Americans like how American presidents treat smaller nations.
update:
and there it is ...
Exclusive: Donald Trump can break the law because 'the US president has an army' says law expert
That ain't how the current supreme court interprets it, so let them eat cake.
Those 2nd amendment people have been real, real quiet lately.
If the supreme court agrees, we'll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.
Look at Jan 6. That is exactly what they think is happening. They are making America great again. There is a reason people are getting doxxed.
They keep saying that, yet doing absolutely nothing. As usual.
At that point, he'll die, Vance will take his place, and will be so un-charismatic that he'll be defeated by a Democrat in 2028 which will find themselves with all this power thanks to the Supreme Court... but will prefer to take the high road and reach across the aisle only to get fucked once again.
Well, I tried.
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie. For a second, I thought you believed that the Democrats would try to do something productive.
Nah even if they tried SCOTUS would figure out some way to suddenly narrow it's ruling. And being a good Democrat they'd comply.
There's already a path for them to do this.
Trump is already calling for a ban on nationwide injunctions, saying that any injunctions or rulings can only be applied to the specific people involved in the lawsuit and are not binding anywhere else.
If Congress passes such a bill, Trump will certainly sign it.
And once that happens, the Supreme Court could at that point just anoint Trump with whatever powers he wants and not have to worry about those powers being used by the next President, since their rulings would only apply to Trump by default, which is exactly what he wants. It would literally turn our judicial system into Calvinball.
I'm pretty sure that would effectively end all state mandates to participate in the Constitution, effectively dissolving it.
It's very clear that Trump does not realize that dissolving the Constitution means states no longer need to adhere to the joined Republic. That agreement IS the Republic. If it no longer exists, then States are their own territories, and DC is nothing.
States activate their reserve guard forces, assume control of stationed assets, and stop sending DC money. That's it. Then it's every state for itself, and guess where all the good shit is he thinks he's just going to order around? In those "Coastal Elite" states he's always belittling.
No incoming money, no people to order around, and only his little cavalcade of dipshits who no longer have positions of power...
As somebody else had mentioned, he'd be killed in a heartbeat, and then the groveling and backtracking would immediately begin to try and undo what he's done.
Any backtracking would be useless, once the country is gone there is no way to put it back together without a lot of bloody violence. Even then it will be a powder keg ready to explode again as soon as the leader who managed to put it back together is gone.
These 50 states are held together by a common history and the republic they participate in. The history is meaningless once the republic is gone. At least we will get to see the birth of a bunch of new nations. But that will come with a ton of war as the wanna dictators in red states try to take whatever they can.
Exactly what Putin has wanted since his takeover. They've been talking about this specific thing for two decades now.
Krasnov, mission accomplished with the United States finally dissolved, take your well-deserved rubles, comrade!
I am optimistic the SCOTUS won't take the bait. Not because they're against Trump, but rather because they don't seem as eager to surrender their own power than Congress is. Even in their notoriously pro-Trump rulings last year, they took care to keep the Judiciary involved in interpreting the extent of the Executive's powers.
Yet Roberts and the scrotus were fuckin dumb enough to give potus nearly complete immunity, which is functionally the same. If the courts rule against any specific action there is nothing to stop him from immediately doing it again.
Go read that ruling again. It was nearly complete immunity for official acts, with the courts deciding what constitutes an official act. It was as much of a power grab for the Judiciary as the Presidency.
Exactly. While we need a strong judiciary right now it's important to understand that the "near miss" scenario of dictatorship leaves us with a supreme court that has too much power and has abdicated its sense of responsibilities.
Our government is supposed to be that the legislature decides broad policy, the executive implements it in accordance with the will of the people, the spirit of the law, and knowledge of their in house experts, and the judiciary (post maybury) serves as a check that blocks laws and policies. As it is today, the judiciary and executive decide policy, the executive does whatever it damn well pleases, and the legislature and judiciary attempt to block various things.
I remember when government shutdowns were a thing so rare as to be absurd but today we do them all the time except when needed
Government shutdowns are a unique situation, specific to the US Congress, because Congress has decided to structure the government to be inefficient, on purpose:
Congress does this, on purpose, to make sure that there is plenty of opportunity to debate spending levels. But in practice, since nobody can agree in a long-term vision, we just lurch from crisis to crisis.
And all his GOP underlings will fall in line and support his outrageous statements.