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Zorro

(16,665 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 09:31 AM Friday

Trump's Power Grab

When you’re the president, they let you do it.

IN THE FIRST THREE DAYS OF HIS SECOND TERM, President Donald J. Trump has signed a tsunami of executive orders and proclamations revoking Biden-era policies and forging frighteningly aggressive new ones. They span a range of issues that the Constitution largely puts in the hands of Congress—energy and the climate, immigration, affirmative action, LGBTQ+ rights, police brutality, private prisons, civil servants, terrorism, health, and domestic military deployment—not to mention a reprieve for TikTok, security clearances granted with no vetting, and pardons and commutations for the January 6th convicts and defendants.

It will take weeks to work through the legal and policy implications of all these executive actions. The Trump team’s obvious strategy is to so overwhelm litigants, the media, the public, Congress, and the courts that nobody really has a handle on the entirety of what’s hitting us.

One thing is already clear, though: Trump is blatantly violating established federal law, knowing that there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

Trump is the law now.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-power-grab-executive-orders-birthright-citizenship-tiktok-constitution

The Shock Doctrine is now underway here.
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He is turning the US government into a criminal organization Zorro Friday #3
I have heard of few kacekwl Friday #2

3auld6phart

(1,365 posts)
1. The
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 09:40 AM
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Total destruction of the U S A, is underway, thanks to a bunch spineless ASShoies. Pukes, supreme and just hateful scum.

kacekwl

(7,798 posts)
2. I have heard of few
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 09:42 AM
Friday

lawsuits from the Democratic party. Hopefully they are filing them as fast as trump is signing orders. Seems like democrats who try do get things done are constantly stopped by the courts stay orders. Can't trumps shit be held up in the courts ? People are being detained with no warrants no legal basis.

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