The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Pat Mustard]

Really? I can. Justices who are bought and paid for will have no problem using novel interpretations of your Constitution to rule however Trump wants them to.

Boru

I realize that exceptions to the Constitution's delegation of tariffs to Congress have been written into law, but Trump is pressing the boundaries of any reasonable interpretations of those laws to make them do what he wants them to.  That's what the judges' pushback on his interpretation of the IEEPA was about.  And yes, Trump can resort to other laws to try to impose the same tariffs.  But he is certainly testing the limits of presidential powers, and is undermining essential checks and balances in the process.

If Congress was in the hands of Democrats, Trump would already be constrained by their pushback against his abuse of the tariff laws.

The current court has already ruled that TACO is immune from criminal prosecution for any acts he commits or orders in office, provided he deems them to be official acts.  This is in direct contradiction to the constitution.  An earlier "conservative" court declared a blanket right to gun ownership, also in direct contradiction to the constitution.  There is no act so repugnant, so illegal or so immoral that a conservative court will not deem to be illegal, as long as it is in the service of wealth.