Showing posts with label Federal Emergencies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federal Emergencies. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

"The President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law."

The President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law.

Retired Federal Judge Michael Luttig

There's so much every day that now many people just ignore it.

Trump, who isn't Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President in the first place, has illegally imposed taxes, something reserved to Congress.  He's either used emergency powers where there is no emergency, or he's actually imposed them where he's not even authorized through an emergency act.

A completely spineless Republican Party is in control of Congress, and therefore nothing is being done about it in that quarter.  

He's ignoring a court order that a prisoner sent to a horrific El Salvadorian prison be returned, using the pretext that fellow traveler Bukele of El Salvador has chosen not to return him, something that I'm confident he could compel to occur.

And that's just a start.

Trump is acting like the Red Caesar desired by an anti democratic element of the far right.  The Courts are stepping up.  Congress needs to as well.

Friday, April 4, 2025

Are Tariffs an Emergency Power?

Something worth looking at, as Trump's tariffs could be terminated by simply terminating the supposed existence of emergencies, or by terminating the power of the Oval Office to declare bogus emergencies.  There are currently 89 existing Federal Emergencies, which his complete and utter nonsense.

Are Tariffs an Emergency Power?

It's worth recalling that Rome went from being a republic, to a dictatorship via this very method.