Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
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Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.

This is the very essence of the difference that should exist between a President and a King. From Federalist 69:

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.

The failure of the Republican party to support this kind of check on Presidential power is why we’re having this crisis now.

  • Lumiluz@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Oho they were not in the news, but DEFINITELY in the tabloids.

    Much like Kennedy’s sexual escapades.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 hours ago

      So you’re saying the scandals around Kennedy’s sexual escapades and Johnson’s being a fan of showing men his penis were not enough to not get Johnson elected in 1964 because of the wave of sympathy when Kennedy was assassinated?

      Because I think that was my point to begin with.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          12·
          8 hours ago

          I’m not sure why you think a man showing other men his penis is a sign of charisma unless those men would all be into it. And that was certainly not Johnson’s intent.

          I’m sorry, but “charismatic” is just not a word people used to describe Johnson.

          • Lumiluz@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            7 hours ago

            Oh, I don’t consider it charismatic.

            But it’s definitely a power move that can fall under a type of charisma. It can definitely impress some in the right circumstances from my experience.

            I think because of the time period it was some sort of weird machoism thing. What Trump would want to pull off he didn’t have a micropeen.