OK, reality check...can CONGRESS to ANYTHING about TRUMP circumventing CONGRESS?

[Miles Archer]

I KNOW Republicans will NOT go to bat for Democrats on this one:

'Indefensible!' Fury erupts as Trump shuts Dems out of key military briefing

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) issued a statement on Wednesday evening, tearing into the Trump administration for holding a briefing with the Senate on the recent military strikes on suspected narcotics smuggling boats in the Caribbean — but only inviting Republican senators.

"Shutting Democrats out of a briefing on U.S. military strikes and withholding the legal justification for those strikes from half the Senate is indefensible and dangerous," stated Warner. "Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party. For any administration to treat them that way erodes our national security and flies in the face of Congress' constitutional obligation to oversee matters of war and peace."

"This partisan stunt is a slap in the face to Congress' war powers responsibilities and to the men and women who serve this country. It also sets a reckless and deeply troubling precedent," Warner continued. "The administration must immediately provide to Democrats the same briefing and the OLC opinion justifying these strikes, as Secretary Rubio personally promised me that he would in a face-to-face meeting on Capitol Hill just last week."

But let's say TRUMP pulls something that DOES make Republicans want to push back. What are their options? Impeachment?

From where I'm sitting, Trump is flexing his John Roberts anointing, telling Congress "TRY TO STOP ME," and Congress is going "Oh, SIR, we would NEVER think of that, SIR," with the BIGGER and BEEFIER and TOUGHER members of Congress WEEPING OPENLY as they say it.

Am I missing something?

[vapor2]

1. Will happen when repugs grow some balls and/or a spine

[Blasphemer]

2. Yeah - impeachment & conviction. That's their job. nt

[Ms. Toad]

3. Can - yes.

Will - no.

Congress is the first firewall, and it is acting more like kindling. Until Congress puts its foot down, there is little the Courts can do about some of his worse excesses - because they are telling the courts (both actively and passively) that they have delegated a lot of their power to Trump.

[Miles Archer]

5. With you 100% on that.

It's pretty clear that we're dealing with "won't."

I assumed that if Republicans somehow stumbled across their "integrity" or "conscience" and inexplicably decided to do "what's right," that it would be effective.

And, it's never going to happen.

[Bayard]

4. WTF?!

There has GOT to be something in the Constitution prohibiting that bullshit!