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kpete

(71,980 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:23 AM Jan 2017

Trump is attempting to overturn constitutional government in the USA.

Four sitting members of Congress from the D.C. suburbs went to the Dulles airport to demand that airport cops grant access to the people being detained, in keeping with the court order. But the airport authority’s deputy police chief refused.

Here’s what this means: Donald Trump’s executive branch is defying the judiciary, even with the personal, in-person assistance of national legislators. He is attempting, in part at least, to overturn constitutional government in the United States.

This is not an exaggeration. In a republic, a professional legal corps gets to interpret the law as written by the elected representatives of the people, and the agents of state violence must obey their commands. In a tyranny, the leader does whatever he wants. That is what Trump, with the close counsel of his advisers Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller, is trying to create.


http://theweek.com/articles/676724/how-president-trump-already-imperiling-constitutional-government

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Trump is attempting to overturn constitutional government in the USA. (Original Post) kpete Jan 2017 OP
Contempt of Court C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #1
With whose personnel? annabanana Jan 2017 #4
If our laws are unenforcable C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #5
US Marshals BBG Jan 2017 #6
with congress in conservative control why would expect anything different? beachbum bob Jan 2017 #2
This MUST be pursued. Quickly. annabanana Jan 2017 #3
absolutely AlexSFCA Jan 2017 #7

C_U_L8R

(44,996 posts)
5. If our laws are unenforcable
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:45 AM
Jan 2017

Then we'll be in a dictatorship and the very idea of the USA will be finished.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
2. with congress in conservative control why would expect anything different?
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:26 AM
Jan 2017

congress has the power to reign in any president and until they have good enough reason, don't expect any thing to change.....an out of control admin remains out of control until WE make a change in 2018


2 long years

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