Here’s a strong argument that the “House cannot collude with the president to deprive the Senate of its constitutional power to advise and consent on appointments.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trump-senate-constitution-house-congress/680898/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trump-senate-constitution-house-congress/680898/
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How do we fight this?
Sincere question - with the DOJ and FBI under his thumb, who is going to enforce the constitution when he tries?
And as it's going to go up to the SCOTUS, do you sincerely think they'll defend the constitution in this instance, or say he has unfettered power?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trump-senate-constitution-house-congress/680898/?gift=K4LGCYlmRhw02ZPBE0qJV7NAP-FXaoO8jqujuFaLKpc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
How lovely at the 250th anniversary, we'll be able to celebrate the return of a king to the USA🤮
We're screwed
laws as it pertains to Trump&his admin is comically sad &delusional. The traitor should be in jail not the Whitehouse. The rule of law&the constitution are dead in trumpland. The GOP doesn't care&won't stop him
Trump doesn't give a flying fuck about the rules.
You're telling me that a guy who lionizes Andrew %$#÷! Jackson is gonna slow down for a strong argument?
Like Bibi and Putin, right?
I, too, refer to it as an "administration". It is more like a threat to democracy than a legitimate part of it.
We are playing by different rules. The longer we finger wag at them for thinking about breaking the rules, the longer they spend consolidating power.
Republicans and Drumpf…do…not…care.
They are not playing by any set of rules or laws.
What’s it going to take for you to understand this?!
But there’s also a “strong argument” against allowing a convicted felon to run for ANY government position, especially one with Security Clearances.
See how far that got us??
I hate everything and it's not even January yet.
https://www.southernliving.com/culture/bless-your-heart-response
The next president has already colluded with the Court to return women to slavery and negate campaign finance laws. After Jan 3, will he even need such effort against the Senate.
I do not see honorable obedience to the Constitution in his future.
A Congress that can ignore the 14th Amendment can ignore anything.
Also, the lack of accountability held against Trump just enables him to push the limits even more. Democrats need to stop acting as if the GOP will play fair.
Why weren't there consequences included in it? Because there are none for rich politicians.
He winds up dismantling democracy by placing loyalists in aspects of the Government and he has his own Storm Troopers called Minute Men. Interesting.
Trump is accountable to no one.
This is absolute insanity
lords Transactional "Art of the Deal" Fvck MAGA. They were only tools to his ascension.. now peasants at the whim of the America 1st monarchy.
For further details and a deeper dig.
The Tony Michael's Podcast
Where to channel your disappointment!
When is this a constitutional crisis???
Don’t ask SCOTUS.
They are a group of f**k ups.
The GOP isn't a savvy, intelligent, integral body. They're incapable of governing and waste time and energy infighting and bickering. They've devolved into people who give in to baser instincts of retribution, violence and revenge.
Just look at their leader.
https://contentiousotter.blogspot.com/2024/12/donald-trump-and-elon-musks-plans-to.html
Because Trump has already proven that it’s OK to break the law, if nobody wants to enforce it.
McConnell already proved that “rules” are only to be followed if you’re in the majority. Nobody can make you follow rules, like granting a hearing for a prospective SC justice.
Rome is burning.
The House shouldn't...but they will.
Well past time to understand this.
Case of Prohibitions del Roy. The king is under no man, but God and the law.
http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs4/77ER1342.html#:~:text=77%20E.R.%201342-,Prohibitions%20Del%20Roy.,law%20and%20custom%20of%20England.
No rules
No enforcement.
He cannot be sworn in as President.
Institutions are viable, predictable and authoritative so long as the majority, especially of those holding positions of authority within the remnants of those institutions, accept law and tradition as their grail.
That majority no longer exists.
Law is now irrelevant.
"The Senate’s involvement helps to ensure that the people in these jobs have the necessary competence and integrity. In Hamilton’s apt words, the Senate can prevent the appointment of “unfit characters” who would be no more than “obsequious instruments” of the president’s “pleasure.”
Rejection requires a majority in both houses.
https://bsky.app/profile/ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social/post/3lcevzw2dfe2g
No, we should not be surprised. WE screwed up c1830.
We can/must fix it.
Your knowledge and experience are invaluable. Thank you. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
While he’s doing it.
He continues to get away with breaking laws, shattering democratic norms.
The republicans that don’t egg him on stand by and do nothing.
He. Will. Never. Stop.
-erode the norms
-ignore the rules
-end up changing laws to suit them
...twas ever thus
...he's going to get away w/ whatever we let him get away with
...& Dems that dont step up are complicit,
period.
If they don't break the United States, most of these people have severe criminal liability. They're not going to allow that to happen. They won't just give up and say "You caught me."
Billionaires that financed the election win big. Harlan Crow /Leonard Leo plotted for yrs to get here.
These people will not give up power in an election.
They will not go quietly into the night.
FFS - their army of believers even wrote a book and published it 😐.
There's so many ways to show him how little control he really has.
But why do we need Congress /Senate-?they just rubber stamp what Dic (tator)Trump wants. We will save on their taxpayers salaries.Fire them.
We do have some actual laws somewhere, yes?
Can we see them?! Pretty fucking please?! 🙏
This bottomless pit of hell is some bigtime bullshit. How the fuck have we operated all this time?!!
Pardon my naïve, not-a-lawyer query: Who, exactly, is gonna stop him when he decides the Constitution is irrelevant to his agenda?
Who has stopped him so far?
https://youtu.be/Y3OiIjIvN0A?si=9YP2iGfNEvLF4gv6
Republicans will do it and say that you're stupid for saying they can't.
When I look at all the other things he "can't do" that no one has been able to stop him from doing, I worry about whether there are any guardrails left.
Americans need to stop bringing strong debate skills to a gunfight