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Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power
National Review ^ | April 15, 2025 | Jeffrey Blehar

Posted on 04/15/2025 4:04:31 AM PDT by karpov

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In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Garcia to America from El Salvador so that his claims can be adjudicated. (He currently sits there under an agreement negotiated by the Trump administration with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for the use of his notoriously brutal mega-prisons to house potential deportees.) This weekend the Trump administration refused, claiming, on stunningly disingenuous logic, that because Garcia had been dumped quickly into El Salvador he was now beyond American jurisdiction. (“He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.”)

Why not just ask El Salvador to return him? Conveniently, President Bukele — who just happened to be in America on an official state visit — sat in the Oval Office yesterday morning and was able to answer that question: There’s just nothing I can do, alas. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.” (Bukele proceeded to smugly chuckle with Trump about how it would be nice to be able to send Americans, too, to his mega-prisons.)

What matters most about this cynical shell game is the transparent contempt for the law on display. Bukele is not his own man, after all; the purpose of his appearance yesterday was to read lines I can only speculate were at least reviewed by Stephen Miller, who sat in on the press conference to pretend that the Supreme Court had ruled 9–0 in favor of Trump rather than against him. Bukele, Trump, and Miller all wore Cheshire cat grins as they calmly told the world that the matter was out of their hands, even though all know the opposite to be true.

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People cheering this should remember that half the time, a Democrat will be President.
1 posted on 04/15/2025 4:04:31 AM PDT by karpov
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A Democrat will not have to deal with rogue federal judges undermining Presidential authority.


2 posted on 04/15/2025 4:07:57 AM PDT by Bratch
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As usual, NR gets it wrong. That is not what SCOTUS ruled. They ruled that the district court must clarify their ruling AND that the President has power over foreign policy......ie that a district court CAN NOT be made by a federal district court judge to violate the sovereignty of a foreign country by somehow forcing them to hand over one of their own nationals in their own country to the US just because a federal district court judge wishes it.
3 posted on 04/15/2025 4:09:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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No shit Sherlock. When democRATs are in power, they abuse the office significantly and the press yawns or cheers them on.

Now it’s payback time. /spit


4 posted on 04/15/2025 4:09:36 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: karpov
What matters most about this cynical shell game is the transparent contempt for the law on display.

The decline of NR from propounding a perspective at the intersection of classical liberalism and religious base conservatism to dipshit unquestioned globalism and legalistic globalism cheering on the righteousness of a squabbling body of lawyers whose job is to sit in judgement on cases under the law and not espouse national policy is very sad.

5 posted on 04/15/2025 4:10:38 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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...most flagrantly with Trump’s openly lawless decision, ten days ago, to delay closing TikTok in direct contravention of the black letter of a bill voted for by Congress and signed into law by his predecessor.

A *whole lot of stuff* was done by either executive order, lawless DoJ (I'm looking at you Jack Smith and Matthew Graves) actions, or edict by "his predecessor."

Jeffrey Blehar is a drooling idjit.

6 posted on 04/15/2025 4:11:17 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: FLT-bird

I quit reading National Review decades ago. They are TERRIBLE.


7 posted on 04/15/2025 4:12:35 AM PDT by johnnygeneric (Blocked website)
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To: FLT-bird

agree... I stopped reading after the first paragraph.


8 posted on 04/15/2025 4:12:55 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: karpov

Another reason to not read anything from NR.


9 posted on 04/15/2025 4:13:50 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: karpov

We have contempt for The National Spew and Jeffrey Blehar.


10 posted on 04/15/2025 4:15:03 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: FLT-bird

The problem for us here is not that NR gets it wrong. They almost always do, but rather why do they get it wrong. How did they go from what NR used to be to founder on the rocks of RINOism. It’s like watching a well raised child, with all the advantages of elite education and the best of society once loosened of parental guidance turn to a life of dissolution.


11 posted on 04/15/2025 4:16:55 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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This Jeffrey Blehar fellow “lives” in Chicago. Enough said there.

Dumbass.


12 posted on 04/15/2025 4:18:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: karpov

NR, the GOPe arm of the MSM.


13 posted on 04/15/2025 4:22:17 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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People cheering this should remember that half the time, a Democrat will be President.

People posting this spew are NeverTrump idjits.

14 posted on 04/15/2025 4:26:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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I’m not in favor of bypassing the federal courts.

If a federal judge ignores an evidenced claim that an illegal is dangerous, then I think the federal judge should be liable in some manner for damage for a defective decision.

If the alien doesn’t want the judge to worry, the alien might buy insurance to protect the judge or post a bond.

The amount of $10,000 comes to mind.

Congress should change the law on alien criminals. We don’t need to have alien criminals, we have too many all-American ones already. Commit an obviously criminal act and away you go, no state level conviction required.

As for asylum claimants, they should have to privately obtain say a $10,000 deposit to cover possible government costs. If they get to stay after final US government review, the US government might pay $12,000. Such a scheme would allow them to get the asylum claim screening the Refugee Convention requires. The hearing officers would be bondsmen. This is an Obamaphone, that’s a list of bondsmen phone numbers, and that’s a chair. You have 24 hours or we toss you back. Catholic Charity Bonding, tell me your story.


15 posted on 04/15/2025 4:32:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“People cheering this should remember that half the time, a Democrat will be President.”

and some folks should remember that aliens are not US citizens.


16 posted on 04/15/2025 4:34:44 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Citizens have a legal right to leave their country, unless the government via law requires their military service or incarceration.

There’s a reason Garcia isn’t here. Which one do you think it is?


17 posted on 04/15/2025 4:39:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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For political reasons, El Salvador isn’t going to incarcerate a totally innocent daddy.

The media is leaving something out.


18 posted on 04/15/2025 4:44:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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oops. I mean that a president cannot be made by a federal district court judge to enact this or that foreign policy. I should have proof read.


19 posted on 04/15/2025 4:55:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Wow. What a sad commentary. Apparently this guy never knew Presidents have power, power that they have slowly given away to other branches. Trump is only reclaiming power that belonged to the presidency all alone. Weak presidents want to foist off (most often to congress then the judiciary) responsibility for fixing hard problem so they don’t take the blame.


20 posted on 04/15/2025 5:04:17 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat. )
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