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Susan Calvin

(2,469 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 08:22 AM May 2025

Correct me if I'm wrong; Constitutional thing that just occurred to me.

So, I haven't read the Constitution in a while, and something just now caused me to think about this. We, or rather the media, need to talk about how Trump is throwing out bills of attainder disguised as executive orders right and left.

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/ap-gov/bills-of-attainder

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Correct me if I'm wrong; Constitutional thing that just occurred to me. (Original Post) Susan Calvin May 2025 OP
Bills are in the Congress. EO's are not. For that matter Ex Post Facto Laws bucolic_frolic May 2025 #1
What dweller May 2025 #2
Well, I for one was talking about the fact, Susan Calvin May 2025 #3
Ok dweller May 2025 #4

bucolic_frolic

(55,818 posts)
1. Bills are in the Congress. EO's are not. For that matter Ex Post Facto Laws
Fri May 23, 2025, 08:26 AM
May 2025

are being enacted here. Putting fees on vehicles already on the road for years or decades, being punished for ownership that was tax free when purchased and registered. This should be illegal.

Susan Calvin

(2,469 posts)
3. Well, I for one was talking about the fact,
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:25 PM
May 2025

At least it seems so to me, that a lot of the executive orders he's throwing out are de facto bills of attainder. They do the same thing, anyway, and if it quacks like a duck......

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