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"At his news briefing, Mr. Trump repeated his position a number of times.
“The president of the United States calls the shots,” he said. “They can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States.”
Asked what provisions of the Constitution gave him such authority over the states, he replied, “Numerous provisions,” without naming any. “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.”
Even the emergency powers granted to the federal government come with limits and “none of these authorities says the president can do anything that he wants,” said Elizabeth Goitein, who directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program.
“The framers of the Constitution did not come up with a system” without limits on executive power, she added. “They were kind of trying to do the opposite of that.”
Trump Wrongly Claims Ultimate Authority to Open Economy
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ReplyDelete"At his news briefing, Mr. Trump repeated his position a number of times.
“The president of the United States calls the shots,” he said. “They can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States.”
Asked what provisions of the Constitution gave him such authority over the states, he replied, “Numerous provisions,” without naming any. “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.”
Even the emergency powers granted to the federal government come with limits and “none of these authorities says the president can do anything that he wants,” said Elizabeth Goitein, who directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program.
“The framers of the Constitution did not come up with a system” without limits on executive power, she added. “They were kind of trying to do the opposite of that.”
He really does think he is a Dictator... :-)