I guess my greatest fear in all of this (the doomsday scenario) is less about what the President does, but more about the reaction of the people should the President not be held to the rule of the law or follow the constituion. I think the possibility of civil unrest would be real and I don't know to what extent. The people need to believe in democracy for this country to keep working the way it has for the last almost 250 years. Democracy works when people and the governent hold it in the highest regard. I think it becomes a slippery slope when we stop following the law of the land.
What happens if a President is in contempt of the federal court?
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Let me find my reed for my sax... Been awhile since I traded fours in a jam session.
He doesn't believe Congress or the Judiciary is necessary now that we President Trump in office.
I think that's a valid fear, but you can make it even scarier by realizing it might lead to a terrible Catch-22. Not only could an out of control President lead to civil unrest, but the Constitution gives us a method of taking care of an out of control President: impeachment. Which in our current environment, might lead to even greater civil unrest.
Ummm of course he did….i know better. I even have Kinda Blue on vinyl
With every post you confirm that you want a King Trump I rather than a President Trump (the 47th).
In some of these cases, federal district court judges clearly intrude on the President’s executive authority. These judges don’t understand that in cases of judicial review of Trump, the law might require them to rule in a way they vehemently disagree with.
The resistance to Trump’s influence in the public arena damages many important institutions including the press, the legislative branch, and now the judicial.
You have a low bar for most 'corrupt people in the world.'
By your standard, this guy must be corruption on steroids. Must be nice to shut down agencies that have opened investigations into your companies. He stands to make way more from the federal government than that judge's wife's non-profit was making from USAID.
Buttegeig s FAA complaints about Space X were essentially nit picking, and the FAA ramped them up after Musk started active campaigning for Trump. The Twitter issue was obviously retaliatory. I’ll guarantee that 100% of companies the size of Tesla and Space X have ongoing issues with the EEOC
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The only legit issue is the SEC.
That’s just a nothingburger hit piece.
I'm pretty sure every single one of them understands that.
No doubt there are politically active and motivated judges. But among our three branches of govt. right now, the judiciary is by far the least corrupt and the one we need to hold on to and defend the most. It's my faith in it that makes me laugh at those who think Trump can or will become a dictator. We who know about it, operate in it, and understand it, though, must defend its legitimacy as an institution, even if individual judges occasionally issue opinions with which we disagree or that their political leanings influenced.
As for who is to blame for the unprecedented attacks on judicial legitimacy over the last ten years, Trump bears as much blame as anyone else.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear Trump say that they would file their appeals and go through the process. That's precisely what he should say. And it's all that he should say. Express displeasure for the decisions -- that's fine, all presidents do that. But you just stay in the process.
As for Vance, he should be ashamed of himself. He's the one with the Yale Law degree. For him to suggest they should just ignore the courts is outrageous.
Obviously, Trump is getting some adverse decisions right now. That's not by accident -- the plaintiffs know which judges to pick, and which Circuits are likely to be the most favorable. The 1st Circuit is basically all Democratic appointments, if I'm not mistaken. Trump is going to have very little chance prevailing there.
But they probably aren't going to have the final say.
