Trump recently issued an EO banning any college football game from occurring at the same time as Army - Navy, and now has issued another one restricting transfers. Both despite the fact that he has no legal authority to do so, and EOs aren’t laws and are non-binding.
If a Democratic President issued unlawful EOs that messed with college football, how quickly would they be impeached?
This is from a columnist at The Athletic (NYT sports section)
A familiar-sounding press release hit my inbox Tuesday afternoon: Yet another politician was proposing yet another bill to “save college sports.” This one came from Tommy Tuberville, the esteemed Alabama senator and former Auburn coach who led the Tigers to the 2004 Golf Digest national championship.
But I read the full bill, which, mercifully, was even briefer than his tenure at Texas Tech. And I will now write a sentence I never imagined I’d write about any politician.
The bill is … smart. Really.
The bill does exactly those two things (one time transfer and flat 5-year eligibility). Part of this writer’s support is that the bill is very limited and doesn’t attempt to fix everything that’s wrong with college sports.
Of course, Trump tries to do it with an EO in spite of:
A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in West Virginia claiming that any transfer restrictions whatsoever violated antitrust law. A judge granted their injunction request, the NCAA settled the case and unlimited free agency became law of the land.
Trump figures he can find some way to strong arm the colleges even though he doesn’t have the direct power to do that. I don’t think that works in this case.
Majority of Canadians open to exploring EU membership. In comparison, fewer than 10% want to join the USA.
I wonder how the need to comply with the EU’s requirement for hard borders would impact that approval rating. The concept of hardening the US-Canada border might appeal right now, but the cost…
Someone needs to tell Vance he is ironic.
How dare they interfere with my interference
I wonder if Vance’s interference is even helping Orban? I am sure Vance thinks he is a great help but I know that if a foreign politician campaigned for any Canadian party, even one I supported, that I would view that negatively.
Just hoping that the Tisza party defeats Orban’s Fidesz party on Sunday.
I think that, when wrangling supporters to stay in line, Orban achieves a measure of validation among his supporters by being able to say “powerful individuals from this superpower agree with our approach and share our values”.
As long as American support doesn’t reach to the point of appearing to push Orban to do something he wasn’t already going to do, the relevant Hungarian nationalists shouldn’t get upset.
How does that work in combination with the US looking like an idiot in the ME while also driving up everyone’s fuel costs?
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Any Canadian political party leader saying that of Trump would be the kiss of death for that party, even the Conservative Party.
True…but there’s a reason Orban’s party got a majority of the vote in 2022.
(Admittedly, gerrymandering got them the two-thirds majority in parliament.)
Just making the point that the Canadian political landscape is very different from Hungary’s. The fact that Donald Trump is the leader of the most powerful country in the world is a negative and has destroyed the US’s image here for the foreseeable future.
Today is the 161st anniversary of Lee’s surrender. Surely no vestiges of the Confederacy remain, and no one is flying flags to celebrate the 4 year rebellion.
It is also the 105th birthday of the late Mary Jackson, for whom the DC headquarters of NASA is named.
Honest question: Did anyone expect this administration, of all administrations, to know what the Avignon Papacy was well enough to use it as a threat? Does Trump think that Avignon is a place or a person?
“I read about it once. Seems like a good idea to threaten the Pope with it. No idea what it means, though.”
After a quick read of wiki, seems tRump is threatening to arrest the pope, who will then die in a month, probably after torture at some black site. tRump will then handpick the successor who will live in the US someplace. Mar a Lardo, probably.
The grift goes on
The article I linked says it was Elbridge Colby who had the chat with the nuncio.
Wikipedia says Colby went to a New England prep/boarding school for high school, then Harvard, then Yale Law…and that he claims to be Roman Catholic.
I think there’s a pretty good chance he knows about Avingnon.