Ozymandius on 5th Avenue
Dipshit lets us know what his priorities are.
As if.
He can’t just write new laws – he can’t write new laws at all. Congress is the legislative branch; he is not.
He’s so eager to see other people executed or given “long prison terms” for crimes they didn’t commit or for actions that are political acts as opposed to crimes. If it’s a crime to push down a statue of a Confederate (aka treasonous) general, what about the crime of putting up such a statue in the first place? And what about the crime of slavery? Eh?
I can’t wait to see this poisonous toad of a man disappear into his “tower” again.
Speaking of 5th. Avenue, Trump is not best chuffed with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan for a BLM mural on Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets, which is, purely by coincidence I’m sure, directly opposite Trump’s towering monument to tackiness and bad taste.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tower-new-york-protests-bill-de-blasio-black-lives-matter-a9586166.html
Oh that’s brilliant.
You go right ahead, President TwoScoops. Not even a stacked Supreme Court and William Barr can prevent every one of these fictitious charges from getting tossed out.
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s charge protesters with sedition and treason. Of course, Meal Team Six locked and loaded in full tacti-cool on the steps of the Michigan State House are just doing their patriotic duty by implicitly threatening armed resurrection against the governor.
No way this could blow back on him.
Acolyte @#1:
I’m pretty sure that Trump could be persuaded to change tack(iness) if he got a slice of the action.
“A very strong executive order” = printed on coloured card, instead of the weak flimsy paper they are usually on. Comes with a box of paints, some foam shapes and non-toxic* glue to keep him out of trouble for hours. Hopefully.
*unfortunately
Catwhisperer,
He ate the glue, didn’t he?
latsot, I’d put money on it. Feel free to insert a Ralph Wiggum clip of your choice.
I’d kinda like to see him disappear into a different tower.
He can’t just write new laws, no, and I have no idea what the executive order actually says, but statutes are not the only sources of binding laws. A congressional statute might, for example, enact a program for federal parks. The executive branch then implements the statute by creating an agency to deal with it, or assigning the function to an existing agency. This creation or assignment of executive function could be specified in the legislation, but at some level, the legislation devolves execution of the statutory requirements to the executive agency(ies) involved. Those executive agencies then carry out the powers and provisions of the enabling legislation, but they have some administrative discretion to determine the details of how the tasks will be performed and/or decided. The agencies have the authority to create regulations, with binding force, about how they allocate resources or create procedures or standards to apply when fulfilling the legislative mandate. These regulations appear in the Code of Federal Regulations. The agencies must generally post proposed regulations for comment and consideration before the regulations take effect. The regulations are not necessarily binding on the courts where, for example, the scope exceeds the statutory mandate, or the rules conflict with superior law, but courts are required to give some deference to matters that are within the special expertise of the administrative agency. All by way of saying that executive orders may do something like amend existing regulations and policies that are part of the function of an executive branch administrative agency. So DJT can “make law” in that sense: he can affect implementing regulations that are supplemental to existing statutory law.