Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
www.theatlantic.com
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.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 hours ago

    I don’t think so. He has the charisma of a flat tire and it was early enough that any sympathy wave would have lost its momentum by November.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      36·
      9 hours ago

      Charisma is not relevant. Do you think Lyndon Johnson had charisma? Do you think that’s why he was elected in 1964? Because people liked him?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          22·
          9 hours ago

          I admit I was not alive at the time, but I’m pretty sure, what with it being the 1960s, that was not the sort of thing the general public was aware of, so I doubt it.

          Also, like it or not, Vance was already elected to the Senate and had a bestselling book. Even though you (and I) do not understand it, some people think he has a magnetic personality. Just like they think about Trump, which I also do not understand.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Journalists were not the general public. 99% of the country had never personally interacted with him and those things were not reported in the news. They’re after-the-fact anecdotes in books.

              I’m also old enough to remember when the press had the collective attitude of “let America think that the president is a good person” regardless of who was in office.

              • Lumiluz@slrpnk.netEnglish
                1·
                6 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·
                  6 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.