Posted on 05/28/2020 5:21:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can “override” governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the “absolute authority” to force states to reopen, even when local leaders say it’s too soon.
As he battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesn’t have. And he has repeatedly refusing to spell out the legal basis for those powers.
“It’s not that the president does’t have a remarkable amount of power to respond to a public health crisis. It’s that these are not the powers he has,” said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes in constitutional and national security law.
Asked Tuesday what authority he had to enforce such a mandate, Trump was cagey.
“I can absolutely do it if I want to,” he said. “We have many different ways where I can override them and if I have to, I’ll do that.”
Trump is now on a tear against Twitter after the social media platform, which he uses to speak directly to his more than 80 million followers, slapped fact-check alerts on two of his tweets claiming that mail-in voting is fraudulent.
For Rutgers University media professor John Pavlik, who studies online misinformation, Trump is simply trying to fire up his political base.
“For Trump,” he said, “this is about politics.”
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Trump plays the media like a fiddle.
Typical bias opinions the AssPress.
Jill Colvin. ...nasty through and through. ...
Tramp’s Presidency exposed these evil media for all to see. Thank you Mr. President. Stay strong. ..
I'll give Jill Colvin a call and offer to drop her mail-in ballot off at the post office.
I'm sure she'll take me up on the offer.
Of course he can, since the Civil War. These dumbells should read a little history, or maybe the Law. They might learn something.
I remember someone having a pen and a phone.
Dem Governors havw been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say they simply don’t have....fixed it
He has broader powers than they think.
Hey, Governors, do you think a State of Emergency gives YOU broad powers to act extraconstitutionally? You ain’t seen NOTHIN’ yet!
He has broader powers than they think.
Hey, Governors, do you think a State of Emergency gives YOU broad powers to act extraconstitutionally? You ain’t seen NOTHIN’ yet!
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My sentiments exactly!
Seems to me the title could apply to a lot of governors these days.
The same people who complain that he didn’t use the powers he didn’t have in order to save everybody from the Coronavirus.
Jill better keep an eye out for fat shaming Nanzi.
Funny how the liberal media only discovers “states rights” when a Republican administration is in power.
It’s called the First Amendment, and Trump has tremendous leeway to enforce it through his DOJ...
“Trump continues to claim broad powers he doesn’t have...”
Unlike, say, Gretchen Whitmer?
So how does the AP feel about Obama and DACA which was declared by the courts to be unconstitutional?
How does the AP feel about a political campaign using the CIA and FBI to spy on its opponents?
How does the AP feel about Joe Biden making racial slurs?
Oh wait, the AP has defended all of these actions.
FAP.
“Unlike, say, Gretchen Whitmer?”
But she’s a damnacrat so it’s okay.
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