Rewriting the limits of presidential powers

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rewriting-the-limits-of-presidential-powers/

The power of the president is enormous – and this president is not bashful in describing powers that go well beyond simple declarations.

In April, when discussing guidelines to be issued to governors about reopening states during the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump said, "When somebody is the President of the United States, the authority is total, and that's the way it's got to be – it's total."

There are, it's true, some restraints on most presidential authority, but those might not apply to all the president's powers.

As Mr. Trump stated in March, "I have the right to do a lot of things that people don't even know about."

We can't know for sure, but what the president appears to have been referring to are his presidential emergency action documents, often referred to as PEADs.

"Even though I've had security clearances for the better part of 50 years and been in and out of national security matters during that half-century, I had never heard of these 'secret powers,'" said former Senator Gary Hart.

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[SheltieLover]

1. In my opinion

We need to stop running out govt like a family in the middle ages, where what daddy says goes.

[hedda_foil]

2. This is the mirror image of the Enabling Act of Hitler's Reich and it's all in Barr's grubby paws.

[onecaliberal]

5. So much that.

[beachbumbob]

3. let do it after democrtic presidents weld such power to fix america, gonna

take 8-12 years at least. THEN we limit th president's power. Until then, game fucking on

[spanone]

4. I prefer: ABUSING PRESIDENTIAL POWER.