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In reply to the discussion: The leak was an attempt to bolster the libertarian brand. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)The "clusterfuck" has to do with how the law is written. Even if this Administration refused to carry out anything from some 60+ years worth of legislation establishing the current infrastructure, that doesn't suddenly "negate" the law. It is still on the books.
WTF is wrong with people accepting the fact that the LAW(S) must be repealed by Congress? And Congress claiming "ignorance" about what is going establishes exactly what I am saying about their punting away the definition of THEIR job.
And you using Congress' feigning ignorance as an excuse to then just ignore them and go back to the idiotic claim of "proof" that "THE PRESIDENT IS EVIL AND VIOLATING MY PRIVACY!!!11!!!!", is just breathtakingly absurd.
It's fucking irrelevant what Shrub assholes are still working in the Executive Branch. Right now, if Elizabeth Warren was President, it wouldn't matter whit regarding the existence of the law. The law doesn't suddenly disappear in thin air. And the Supreme Court (as the Judiciary) has a role to determine whether a law is constitutional or not but that STILL does not negate the fact that Congress is the one who writes the law. And in this case, the Supreme Court has in the past ruled on parts and has kept these laws in place and THEY can throw a law out, but again, the Executive Branch CANNOT.
THE LAWS MUST BE CHANGED OR REPEALED BY CONGRESS. The Executive Branch CANNOT repeal a law. And Executive Orders only establish guidance to agency for how to carry out that law but they cannot overturn the law and they are as fleeting as the next President who can summarily toss the previous President's EOs.