The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Pat Mustard]

None of which has anything to do with whether the Supremes will subvert the Constitution to give Trump what he wants. You can’t imagine that they will, I can’t imagine that they won’t.

Boru

My point that a Congress in the hands of Democrats would already have pushed back was meant to underscore the fact that Congress still has the power of tariffs, that the president only has certain powers given to him by Congress, which can also be taken away.  So what I said does in fact bear on the issues in question.

Yes, SCOTUS can hand the president the powers of Congress, but they will be violating the Constitution if they do.  They effectively will be passing new laws instead of interpreting them.

As an aside, I think that the United States has already crossed the line into a plutocracy, or perhaps even into fascism, by electing a pathological lying authoritarian president twice.  The only important question is whether the courts can or will hold the line throughout the next several years before our system of government is completely undermined.

The court has been doing that since the 30s.