[House Atreides]

DONALD TRUMP (BLESSED IS HIS NAME) has come to deliver us and will be able to do no wrong. HE should not be bound by small things such as constitutions & laws.

DONALD TRUMP, Thy presidency come. Thy will be done in Washington, as it is in New York. /sarc

[Republican Wildcat]

During an interview with NBC News, Trump was asked if he would use executive actions in a similar fashion to the way President Barack Obama has. "I won't refuse it. I'm going to do a lot of things. He led the way," Trump said. He added, "But I'm going to use them much better and they're going to serve a much better purpose than he's done."

So Trump will issue unconstitutional executive orders to circumvent separation of powers and federalism, but he will do it "better" and for "better things" than Obama...I see.

He did announce one - that he would issue an executive order mandating the death penalty for cop killers. That they should be severely punished is not debatable, but Trump's proposal completely undermines separation of powers and federalism - the prosecution is a state issue, not federal, and undermines the legislature to pass laws and the judiciary to hand out sentences...but what are little things like that, anyway?

[SteveH]

keyboard spew alert

[central_va]

You can’t blame this on Trump. The blame here is n a lay down and do noting congress that let O’Bastard get away with everything.