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Bawse Dawg said:
Genuinely asking, why haven't/couldn't they ask the Biden administration for the exact same thing?
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It looks like they were waiting to see who won then they would approach whoever that was. Happened to be Trumpler.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Genuinely asking, why haven't/couldn't they ask the Biden administration for the exact same thing?
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BS answer in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1......
 

Mark Paoletta, who is helping plan the Trump administration’s Justice Department staffing during the transition, repeated his belief that Trump has the right to direct the department to charge, or not charge, anybody he likes.

After the Watergate scandal revealed that Richard Nixon had influenced the Justice Department to conceal the investigation into a burglary his administration committed to spy on Democrats, Congress implemented reforms to wall the department off from political influence.

,The rationale for these reforms is obvious. Nixon’s abuses hinted at the potential for the department as a partisan weapon. Indeed, taken to its limit, a president could use selective prosecutions to render all his critics criminals or targets of criminal investigations, while giving his allies carte blanche to commit crimes on his behalf. Those reforms closed a kind of procedural loophole big enough to swallow up much of the Constitution by permitting the president to run a virtual police state.

,Now, there is a longstanding theory from some corners of the right that these reforms violate original constitutional principles, which, they believe, require the president to maintain total control over every action taken by the executive branch.

This seems like bad news, given that we just elected Donald Trump.

Paoletta, however, insists, “President Trump will not use the DOJ for political purposes, that is to go after individuals simply because they are political opponents.” Nothing to worry about here! Trump will use his discretion in a completely unbiased way!

The wee flaw in this method, of course, is that Trump is in the habit of declaring all his opponents to be criminals. An abridged list of the people Trump has deemed to have committed crimes includes: all three Democratic nominees he ran against, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Tim Kaine, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Robert Mueller, James Comey, and many, many other targets. So Paoletta’s assurance that Trump will not go after his opponents is not very reassuring given that Trump has no capacity to distinguish between a crime and the act of opposing him.

By the same token, he believes that any criminal prosecution of himself or one of his allies is inherently illegitimate. The dilemma is compounded by the fact that Trump has been surrounding himself with criminals and violating the law habitually his entire career. Even more automatic than his impulse to label his critics criminals is his tendency to insist his criminal allies did nothing wrong. This applies to corrupt politicians who merely support Trump, crooks who are attracted to him for obvious reasons, and even the violent insurrectionists who aided his coup attempt, and whom Trump has called “hostages” who are innocent victims of the left-wing justice system.
 
fishonjazz said:
The wee flaw in this method, of course, is that Trump is in the habit of declaring all his opponents to be criminals. An abridged list of the people Trump has deemed to have committed crimes includes: all three Democratic nominees he ran against, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Tim Kaine, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Robert Mueller, James Comey, and many, many other targets. So Paoletta’s assurance that Trump will not go after his opponents is not very reassuring given that Trump has ...
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... been President from 2016 to 2020 and every person on the aforementioned list was never criminally prosecuted.
 
I hadn't heard about this before: Trump has pledged to sign an executive order revoking birthright citizenship, which is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
 
fishonjazz said:
I hadn't heard about this before: Trump has pledged to sign an executive order revoking birthright citizenship, which is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
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I love he thinks he can just executive order a new constitution. Unbelievable. Of course with the supreme Court in his pocket maybe he can.
 
fishonjazz said:
I hadn't heard about this before: Trump has pledged to sign an executive order revoking birthright citizenship, which is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
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I wonder, is there precedent for this? Have we ever had a president attempt to nullify an amendment to the constitution through executive order and if so how did they stop it? Or does it stop itself since he can declare whatever he wants but he cannot enforce it, unless he chooses to use the military I suppose.
 
fishonjazz said:
I hadn't heard about this before: Trump has pledged to sign an executive order revoking birthright citizenship, which is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
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He pledged to do that in 2015, won election in 2016, and didn't do it.
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Then he pledged to do it in 2018 when he was President, and didn't do it.
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Can Trump end birthright citizenship? We asked 10 legal experts.

Not exactly, but it could get complicated.
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Now he's pledged to do it again. Meh. Even if he does, it will be struck down by the courts. The language on that one is pretty clear.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
He pledged to do that in 2015, won election in 2016, and didn't do it.
www.vox.com

Birthright citizenship and “anchor babies,” explained

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money...
www.vox.com www.vox.com

Then he pledged to do it in 2018 when he was President, and didn't do it.
www.vox.com

Can Trump end birthright citizenship? We asked 10 legal experts.

Not exactly, but it could get complicated.
www.vox.com www.vox.com

Now he's pledged to do it again. Meh. Even if he does, it will be struck down by the courts. The language on that one is pretty clear.
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Different courts/judges. Different administration. Different time.

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