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Nothing we didn't already know, but it can't be said enough.
Source: APNews.com
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As he battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesnt have. And he has repeatedly refused to spell out the legal basis for those powers.
Its not that the president doesnt have a remarkable amount of power to respond to a public health crisis. Its that these are not the powers he has, said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in constitutional and national security law.
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Trump certainly does not have the power under any reasonable reading of the Constitution or federalism to order places of worship to open, said Matthew Dallek, a historian at George Washington Universitys Graduate School of Political Management who specializes in the use of presidential power.
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Hes still trying to wield his often outrageous interpretations of the law as a cudgel to bludgeon others, said Joshua Geltzer, founding executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center.
More at: https://apnews.com/d60a6b1faa40bb91d278b2a54850a6e1
Emphasis in the above mine.
pwb
(11,246 posts)Everything is falling apart because of his inaction and listening to the fringe freaks.
mopinko
(69,990 posts)see dpa.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Bullshit!
He's not battling the pandemic, he's battling the fallout from his own mismanagement of the pandemic, and he's battling the public perception of his failure to exhibit a modicum of leadership during this time.
He tosses out his daily Twitter distractions to try to keep everyone from looking closely at how badly he has failed at pretty much everything he claims that he has done.
Poiuyt
(18,114 posts)then I guess he has them. There has got to be some pushback!
Cha
(296,846 posts)ASSFACE is GONE.