Should we expect a Republican response to this presidential overreach as we have seen in the past:
Sen. Rand Paul , “Mr. President we are a nation of laws & we are supposed to follow our Constitution. You do not get to ‘act alone.’”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Obama’s executive orders threaten the liberty of every American), Over and over again this president has disregarded the law, has disregarded the Constitution and has asserted presidential power that simply doesn’t exist and that ought to worry regardless of whether you agree with his policies or not.
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) , “I could not bear to watch as he continued to cross the clearly-defined boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers.”
My concern is that because there will be so many, the media will only focus on the immigration ones and ignore many that should get independent attention and criticism.
Executive Orders aren’t necessarily bad. It’s the content that’s important. He can do 1,000 in one day and I wouldn’t care, if they didn’t go beyond his powers as President. If he only issued one, and it did go beyond those powers, I’d be bothered by it.
IMO the worst Executive Order by a recent president was DACA.
I read about this yesterday . . . however, it should be noted that an “executive action” is not necessarily the same as an “executive order” (although, an executive order is one form of an executive action).
Based on the article linked in now_samantha’s post, it does appear to be a considerable number of executive orders being given, and each has a sub-list of executive actions to be taken to satisfy the given order; so I wonder how the count is really stacking up.
And I think that one thing we should also keep in mind with Trump taking office is the rare precedent that he’s coming in with considerable Presidential experience already. After winning the election, he’s not getting a comprehensive crash-course of Presidential information. Rather, he’s working through what he wants to get started and has a good idea of what to do for that.
If Tik Tok is really a threat to national security under Chinese ownership I think giving it a reprieve is worse than protecting the immigration status of a bunch of kids.
The entire TikTok thing was a swirl of propaganda, posturing, and grift.
Congress voted that TikTok would have to shut down soon. TikTok suddenly shut down in advance of being required to leverage their addicted userbase, leaving a message that Tiktok needs Trump to save them. Yass gave a bribe to Trump (I mean, uh, made a wise investment in $Trump and/or $Melania and/or DJT), Trump gave TikTok an executive order, and TikTok opened with a big message thanking Trump.
As Donald Trump reverses his position on potentially banning TikTok ahead of an expected House vote this week on legislation that could lead to it being blocked in the U.S., the former president has been rebuilding his relationship with a GOP megadonor who reportedly has a major financial stake in the popular social media platform… Yass, who did not respond to a request for comment on Monday, owns a significant stake in in TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance, The Wall Street Journal reported last year.
Watching Trump sign executive orders as someone read off what he was signing, it was a grand spectacle that only lacked him wearing a crown and a royal robe. He really didn’t give a shit what he was signing, it was all about getting to sign something and people applauding him.
That sticks in my mind, because as soon as people around him figure that out, they are going to put all kinds of shit in front of him to sign. And, being President with Lots Of Power, he’s going to sign everything put in front of him without bothering to read it, trusting that whatever he’s told it is, that’s what it is. Have Musk sit presiding over the Senate? Cool, whatever, he gets to sign something. Delegate control of some department to one of the lackeys? Whatever, he gets to sign something. As long as money is pouring in from whatever scheme someone around him cooked up that slaps his name on it, he will have grand spectacles signing anything and everything put in front of him, no matter how critically important or completely unconquential to anything.
And as his mental state gets worse - and it is going to get worse - people will take advantage of that even more. I think it goes without saying that the real threat isn’t him, it’s people in his circle using him for their own advantage. However, I think it needs to be said out loud and people need to watch who consolidates power and who gets excluded - because it’s going to be a power struggle underneath him to utilize his office for their whim. And he’s not going to give a shit, as long as he gets to play having power and gets money out of it - the more of each, the better.
Do I think it was important for him to pardon the J6 criminals? Yes, but only insofar as it was important to someone else who was willing to give him money / any of those people might help him stay in power. People around him could have said he was signing a pardon of the J6 criminals and the document really said “all references to milk in government publications shall be changed to cow jizz and all affected items shall be republished within 15 days with cow jizz as the new term” and he wouldn’t have known the difference. He had something in front of him, someone said sir, this document says _______ and his mind went no further than oh, that’s awesome, I’ll just sign this, look at me I’m so important, I’ve got all this power.
I think that is how he does business. “So, you’re going to fix my plumbing, eh? How much are you gonna pay me to do that?”
Such a great businessman, lying and shit.
That’s going to be his presidency in a nutshell. He’s going to get paid through dark money to influence economic outcomes. You want Tik Tok to continue to operate? You want tariffs to go away? Ok, buy my meme coin.
So this is my sister’s wheelhouse, as a practicing attorney in immigration law. Illegal immigrants don’t have the right to an attorney, unlike citizens. If you are a citizen, mistakenly detained because of the color of your skin, how do you prove your citizenship if by default you aren’t given an attorney? You’re locked up in a cell screaming that you are a citizen, asking for a lawyer, and your jailers are like, sure, buddy.
If you are lucky you get a lawyer from a nonprofit organization like the one my sister worked for.
