Yea no. He’s making excuses for things, and the courts are throwing on the non-emergency brakes. They are getting tired of him. He damn near just goes straight to SCOTUS for help. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t take a case for him. He’s not going to like it if and when he gets shut down. From AlterNet:
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig tells the Intelligencer that there is nothing President Donald Trump “loves more than an emergency.” He turns to emergencies to declare the nation under attack by immigrants, protesters — even economic conditions. “Fear rarely fails … and, legally, an emergency declaration can unlock fringe-extreme executive powers,” said Honig. “But over the past few weeks, the federal courts have drawn a line. Not everything bad is an emergency, it turns out.”
Again, yea no. He’s getting fact-checked and has been found wanting. Just because he wants to do something, what he’s using doesn’t necessarily hold water. We’ve been talking about that, but all we can do is talk. Shady though his reasons may be, he thinks it’s number 1, go to the head of the line, urgent. No, just because he thinks he can do something, it’s not necessarily so.
Honig said Trump’s advisers “plumbed the law books” to come up with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to justify Trump’s tariffs. And he then declared the “large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits” to pose an existential threat to the Nation’s “economic sovereignty.” But the trial-level Court of International Trade rejected Trump’s economic emergency claim in May, as did the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals last week. Honig said the appeals court even pointed out Trump’s love of declaring national emergencies “since taking office.”
Too bad Congress gave him the power over tariffs, which was STUPID. What the hell did they think they were doing??!! But anyhow, he may quote some law or act for his reason, which really doesn’t fit or isn’t applicable to the current situation. It doesn’t work like that. He doesn’t react well when he’s told not just no, but HELL NO. It doesn’t matter what he thinks. The courts know what they are doing, Trump appointees included.
In June, Trump used another emergency law to install the National Guard in California to assist ICE agents, claiming anti-ICE protests constituted “a form of rebellion.” District court Judge Charles Breyer ruled that Trump used Guard personnel illegally to perform civilian law-enforcement functions. That case now sits before the Ninth Circuit, but now that anti-ICE protests have essentially ended, it’s unclear how Trump can now justify his emergency. And while it’s true that Trump’s Republican-majority Supreme Court can reverse these rulings, Honig said the court only “takes a minuscule fraction of all cases presented to it, typically 2 or 3 percent,” so many of these anti-Trump decisions in the lower courts will stand.
BUSTED. These judges laid the smack down on him! It’s about time he got some setbacks. He doesn’t know that we are laughing at him with every “no” decision. He hates being laughed at. And he’ll whine and cry “poor pitiful me,” but it won’t do him any good. The courts know the law. If they say no, they say no. That’s all there is to it. Period.
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I’ll tell you what a true emergency is: when the Continental army takes over airports in the American Revolution and air flight won’t be invented until the Wright brothers. How’s that comrade mark? You evidently believe it. Dumbass. I’ve got hundreds of equally outrageous moronic statements YOUR cult leader has made. You want to defend that? Or just throw out some bullshit excuse for your nazi leader and worst traitor this country EVER PRODUCED. At least Benedict Arnold was a hero of the battle of Saratoga, and was permanently disabled from it. Trump can’t even put on his girdle by himself. Draft dodging piece of shit.
I have no idea what you were replying to since it was deleted, but apparently you needed to be HARSH, and you were. Well said. Thank you for the comment!
Sorry…just a response to baby huey making up ’emergencies’ to misuse our regular troops and national guard to harass blue cities run by black women…women Charlie Kirk said were morons by virtue of genetics. I have black and mixed children. Then he create a brownshirt secret police raping our civil rights. Harsh? Hell… no one here has ever known how fierceness takes over, and I have to be alone like a werewolf that locks himself in a cell during the full moon. Ha. I knew my five uncles that fought in WW2. It sickens me to see where we are. It’s just getting started.
No need to apologize, Scott! I guessed at who you were replying to, and I’m betting he deserved it. He tries *so hard* to be a troll. So you have no need to hold back with anything, okay? And it was VERY well said!