captain red dog wrote:Cuttooth wrote:If anyone's interested in just how unsuitable the US Constitution is to a president like Trump I'd suggest listening to the What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law podcast, by Roman Mars (99% Invisible).
It's a really good look at just how tenuous the system is, dependant so much on voters approving actually competent people instead of the likes of Trump.
Well actually so far I think the US government system has worked almost perfectly. His executive orders that broke the law have been blocked and he has been able to get through almost nothing aside from minor executive orders. Even the US military Trans ban hasn't been put in place (it was literally just some meaningless tweets, despite ether idiocy of the move).
If all he can get through are some minor executive orders, I'd say that's largely a successful job for the Dems and Reps that oppose him.
The Presidency is about much more than that. Just the statements he makes alone on all kinds of subjects have more legal weight to them because he's the president. He's going around with the mentality that because he's President of the United States he can do what he likes, in many cases that being true is a legal grey area where unwritten assumptions about what the character of the president is supposed to be have held true for so long.
How much can he threaten to withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities for instance? How exactly can he use his presidential pardon powers that he's hinted at using? Is he using his hiring and firing powers in a constitutional way?
It highlights how atypical a president he truly is and how his presidency should never ever be normalised.
EDIT - Anyway here's the link for anyone interested.
https://trumpconlaw.com/