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2021-12-13 at 3:11 AM UTCIt ironic that everything they accuse Trump of doing, they themselves have already done.
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2021-12-13 at 3:14 AM UTC
Originally posted by Concerned_Citizen 1. Acting Officials
The Constitution’s appointments clause gives the president power to appoint federal officers, with the Senate’s advice and consent. There are often delays in the confirmation process, however, so Congress enacted the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) to allow the president to appoint “acting” officers, people already holding certain positions within the federal government who can serve in a vacant office for a maximum of 210 days after it becomes vacant. Keeping an officer in such an “acting” position past the statutory limit violates the appointments clause. Although past presidents have employed a handful of unlawfully serving officers, Trump made the creative use of “actings” into an art.
Take the Department of Homeland Security, where until his recent resignation, Chad Wolf had served as acting secretary since November 2019 — well more than 210 days since the last permanent secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, resigned. Several courts have ruled that Wolf's actions as acting secretary are void because he wasn't eligible for the role, without even broaching the timing issue. The authority of the man serving as acting deputy secretary, Ken Cuccinelli, was even more clouded. With little chance of confirmation as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Cuccinelli was instead appointed by Trump to the newly created position of principal deputy director, which would supposedly allow him to then be named acting director, which in turn would allow him eventually to be named acting deputy secretary. Cuccinelli's directives have likewise run into legal trouble.
2. Steel Tariffs
The Trump administration also violated the separation of powers in March 2018, when it issued a 25 percent steel tariff under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act (TEA). The purpose of the TEA is to grow foreign commerce by opening trade up, but it effectively allows the president to unilaterally restrict imports in the name of national security. The president's security justification was undermined by the fact that military requirements for steel represent only 3 percent of the commodity's domestic production. It's also unclear how the round 25 percent figure was calculated or how it relates to national security. Courts were unwilling to question executive discretion, or congressional delegation of the power to regulate international commerce, though one judge asked and failed to receive an answer to the question of whether the president's authority would extend to tariffs on peanut butter.
3. Border-Wall Funding
Trump once again violated the separation of powers when in February 2019 he repurposed funds from the military budget to build his border wall without congressional approval. The Constitution's appropriations clause states that no money may be drawn from the treasury unless appropriated by law, which means that the executive can't spend money that Congress hasn't authorized it to spend. When Congress appropriated some but not all of the money Trump wanted for his border wall, the president found what he thought was a workaround: he declared a national emergency, which in part gave him the power to shift Defense Department funds appropriated for drug-war activities and military-construction projects. The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to this executive reappropriation next month (Full Disclosure: I filed a brief supporting the challenge), and even if the justices rule in Trump's favor, there's a serious constitutional problem with Congress's delegation of such plainly legislative authority.
In early 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would be punishing states and local governments for refusing to help the federal government enforce its immigration laws. This denial of a slew of federal law-enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities violated the “anti-commandeering doctrine,” among other principles of federalism. That is, states are independent sovereigns that can’t be forced to assist the federal government, and although they can be enticed to help willingly with the promise of federal funds, the federal government can’t place additional strings on those enticements without congressional approval. Numerous courts around the country have blocked Sessions’s plan, which has gone unenforced.
Lawsuits against Trump around the United States Constitution
Lawsuit alleging violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump
CNN v. Trump
U.S. WeChat Users Alliance v. Trump
Lawsuit alleging violations of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California (the DACA lawsuit)
New York v. Trump (another DACA lawsuit)
Vidal v. Nielsen (another DACA lawsuit)
Lawsuit alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Stone v. Trump
Lawsuits alleging violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution
CREW v. Trump
D.C. and Maryland v. Trump
Blumenthal v. Trump
U.S. Constitutional case law lawsuit filed by the United States House Committee on the Judiciary to compel the testimony of former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn, Jr. under subpoena.
In re: Don McGahn
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2021-12-13 at 3:21 AM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It ironic that everything they accuse Trump of doing, they themselves have already done.
Trump was elected BECAUSE of their crimes.
Crimes like the prosecution of Julian Assange, the genocide of the Palestinians, the support of ISIS, the war on Libya and the Jihadist revolt there, the war on Syria and the many false flag gas attacks there, the jedi Sackler family's Purdue Oxycontin epidemic, the fentanyl epidemic, the hollowing out of manufacturing in middle America, the mass importation of Mexican white-replacement workers, the criminal bank bailouts of 2008-2011, the subsidies given to criminal corporations like Goldman Sachs, the looting of solid businesses by the likes of Bain Capital, the constant racial hate deposited on normal white Americans by the like of CNN and MSNBC.
And on and on.
Then they did the whole Russia Trump shit, which is now a known lie.
But Trump ... what? Exaggerated how much a golf course he had just bought was worth or something that one time?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-13 at 3:24 AM UTCThey're scared of Trump, because he was one of them and he knows too much.
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2021-12-13 at 3:56 AM UTCI'd actually believe that whoever Concerned Citizen is copy-pasting from was acting in good faith if they mentioned the murder of Soleimani, or the prosecution of Julian Assange, or the recognition of the illegal occupation of the West Bank or the conquest of the Golan Heights.
If I don't see those four things - well, I have to guess there's some Hebrew trickery afoot.
Concerned Citizen, I am concerned. Don't you care about those things? Why doesn't your source list them?
Why does your source care so much about minorities when it comes to hurting whites in America, but so little when it comes to the very real genocide being perpetrated against the original custodians of the land in the levant?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-13 at 4:05 AM UTChttps://www.gbnews.uk/news/julian-assange-has-stroke-in-prison-due-to-stress-over-future-fiancee-says/179173
Looks like Assange just had a stroke, apparently due to stress.
America is a blight upon humanity. It long ago turned on it's own people and became cannibalistic, the sooner it is done away with the better for real Americans. -
2021-12-13 at 4:13 AM UTCI keep hearing storys about TRUMP getting to be speaker of the house and impeaching biden and camela
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2021-12-13 at 4:17 AM UTC
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2021-12-13 at 4:31 AM UTC“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
― Robert E. LeeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-13 at 4:47 AM UTCman this thread has a dead fish funk emitting from it tonight
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2021-12-13 at 5:44 AM UTC
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2021-12-13 at 6:41 AM UTCBusiness Insider
Chris Christie fired a fresh salvo at Trump, saying the events leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot were 'driven from the top' by 'C-team players'
insider@insider.com (Cheryl Teh)
Chris Christie said this weekend that the events leading up to Jan. 6 were "driven by the top."
Christie pointed the finger at the "C-team players" around Trump, blaming them for the Capitol riot.
He said Trump was reluctant to concede the election, and spurred on by people telling him what he wanted to hear.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave his take on the events leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, calling it a process "driven from the top" and "executed by C-team players."
Christie made these comments on Sunday, in an appearance on ABC News' "This Week" hosted by George Stephanopoulos. The former governor was responding to a comment from Stephanopoulos about a PowerPoint presentation sent by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows detailing how the Trump team could work to overturn the election.
"It seems like, every single day, Chris Christie, we're learning more about what was going inside the White House in those days leading up to Jan. 6," Stephanopoulos said, referencing the Meadows PowerPoint presentation. "It may explain why the former president and his allies are working so hard not to cooperate."
Christie replied that the things that are being revealed now about the Jan. 6 riot were "driven from the top."
"I mean, the president made it very clear that he did not want to concede the election, that he would not concede the election. And you got a bunch of people around him by the time we got to the end, with very few exceptions, that were C-team players, at best, on their best day," Christie said.
The former governor added that these "C-team players" told former President Donald Trump what he wanted to hear.
"There were plenty of people on the outside who were telling him this is over, and you need to concede. He didn't want to hear that," Christie said.
Christie was critical of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to block House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's GOP picks for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
"The problem now is that because she dictated — for the first time in my memory — who the minority party could have on a committee, it does affect to some extent among people in my party, the credibility the committee has," he said, before adding that he thought the committee is doing "important work."
"In the end, the facts are going to come out, but let's not kid ourselves. This was a driven-from-the-top process executed by C-team players. And that's why it looks like a Keystone Cops operation, because it was," Christie said.
Christie's new comments are his latest salvo in an ongoing feud with the former president. On Nov. 8, Christie urged Trump to "move on" from the 2020 election and "tell the truth."
Trump then released a statement the next day via his spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, claiming Christie was "just absolutely massacred by his statements that Republicans have to move on from the past, meaning the 2020 Election Fraud."
"Everybody remembers that Chris left New Jersey with a less than 9% approval rating — a record low, and they didn't want to hear this from him!" Trump said in his Nov. 9 statement.
Trump on Dec. 8 also put out a statement via Harrington, commenting on how sales of his book "dwarf Chris Christie's."
Separately, Christie also accused Trump of withholding his COVID-positive test status and transmitting the virus to him. -
2021-12-13 at 6:43 AM UTC
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2021-12-13 at 11:50 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump Trump was elected BECAUSE of their crimes.
Crimes like the prosecution of Julian Assange, the genocide of the Palestinians, the support of ISIS, the war on Libya and the Jihadist revolt there, the war on Syria and the many false flag gas attacks there, the jedi Sackler family's Purdue Oxycontin epidemic, the fentanyl epidemic, the hollowing out of manufacturing in middle America, the mass importation of Mexican white-replacement workers, the criminal bank bailouts of 2008-2011, the subsidies given to criminal corporations like Goldman Sachs, the looting of solid businesses by the likes of Bain Capital, the constant racial hate deposited on normal white Americans by the like of CNN and MSNBC.
And on and on.
Then they did the whole Russia Trump shit, which is now a known lie.
But Trump … what? Exaggerated how much a golf course he had just bought was worth or something that one time?
A dangerous thing about the "orange man bad" narrative is that it's designed to lock the gates of power.
"He was just a business man, he had no experience and neither did his team and look what he did!"
He was an objectively shitty president but about on par with George H.W. Bush in alot of ways and honestly could have even alot worse. When you limit who holds the reigns of power to the people who are chosen to do so, you're ensuring the outcomes that occur are the same ones that have always occurred.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-13 at 12:09 PM UTCthat's the point though, the reason they went so hard on him is because he slipped past the gatekeepersThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-12-13 at 12:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra that's the point though, the reason they went so hard on him is because he slipped past the gatekeepers
It was amazing.
People who bet on Trump to win (the first time) made a lot of money.
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2021-12-13 at 12:34 PM UTC
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2021-12-13 at 12:45 PM UTCit's ironic because they let the one serious impeachable thing he did slide because the 'powers that be' wanted it - that being the direct missile strike on Syria, a unilateral act of war without congressional approval
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2021-12-13 at 12:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo That's why the stupidass impeachment shit was so important because they thought it would negate his legacy and justify the process they use
It was also the Republicans reigning in the White House, since the White House needed their votes to avoid sanction.
The media never talk about all the political horse-trading that is going on all the time behind the scenes. -
2021-12-13 at 2:28 PM UTC
