In revoking Executive Order 11246, Trump took aim at history and efforts to combat discrimination. Also: Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship is blocked for now.
Well, they’re not interested in the rule of law and believe themselves untouchable. They’ve curried immense favor with the paramilitaries by pardoning the J6 traitors and now have their own personal army.
This is a message about our complacency in just assuming matters are settled and thus don’t need to become legislation. If the thing Trump was undoing was a law he’d have to either pass a new law or outright defy it. Neither would necessarily stop him, but it would provide a shock to the people who think anything that’s an EO is the current president’s prerogative and thus this is the system working as intended. Undoing an EO can be done without any outside support from vulnerable senators and buried in a flood of news stories like this one was, yielding little political cost to the president. We want stuff like this to cost as much as possible.
This isn’t to say don’t use an EO if legislation isn’t feasible, but oftentimes having a public fight to formally establish what the general public already believes is how things should work is a good opportunity to paint your opponents as outside the mainstream.
Yeah, I agree, but only somewhat. I’m not informed enough to know whether your assumption that there wasn’t continuous effort to put that into law is correct. Definitely I agree in principal! I have a significant amount of frustration with our representatives that haven’t pulled through.
Well, they’re not interested in the rule of law and believe themselves untouchable. They’ve curried immense favor with the paramilitaries by pardoning the J6 traitors and now have their own personal army.
They may not need legislation.
This is a message about our complacency in just assuming matters are settled and thus don’t need to become legislation. If the thing Trump was undoing was a law he’d have to either pass a new law or outright defy it. Neither would necessarily stop him, but it would provide a shock to the people who think anything that’s an EO is the current president’s prerogative and thus this is the system working as intended. Undoing an EO can be done without any outside support from vulnerable senators and buried in a flood of news stories like this one was, yielding little political cost to the president. We want stuff like this to cost as much as possible.
This isn’t to say don’t use an EO if legislation isn’t feasible, but oftentimes having a public fight to formally establish what the general public already believes is how things should work is a good opportunity to paint your opponents as outside the mainstream.
Yeah, I agree, but only somewhat. I’m not informed enough to know whether your assumption that there wasn’t continuous effort to put that into law is correct. Definitely I agree in principal! I have a significant amount of frustration with our representatives that haven’t pulled through.
It starting to turn into Calvinball.
Yea this is the crux of the whole fucking situation. And the paramilitaries are filled with shitty cops… as I just read in a recent mole dump.
Tell me more about mole dump. I’m unfamiliar. From the context, I assume it’s an info dump from a mole…
Yea! Np. This was the thing I had been reading - https://beehaw.org/post/18134753
Aah, ok. I read an article about this dude. I hope he servives the ordeal!