Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. None has received a reply.
The thing is that they didn’t. If I understood the Supreme Court decision, what they did was saying that official actions of the head of state have to be tried by the legislature and not the courts, which is a common arrangement in other countries. The Congress is the one writing blank checks by refusing to impeach and convict Presidents based on party politics.
This mess with Trump is another symptom of our Congress being more intent on taking bribes campaign donations and retaining their personal power than handling the business of the nation.
Not to mention an “official act” likely can’t be defined as intentionally ignoring the supreme courts ruling. Not only can Congress file impeachment and the Senate remove him, I don’t see how they couldn’t charge him with treason for doing so. Will they, no. But it should be fully within the parameters of what the supreme Court ruled
Yet fuckhead McConnell said that trump needed to be tried in court, not in Congress via impeachment. If neither branch will step up, it’s carte blanche and the game is over.
Basically, what did they think was going to happen when the Supreme Court game him Carte Blanka powers to do whatever he wanted.
The thing is that they didn’t. If I understood the Supreme Court decision, what they did was saying that official actions of the head of state have to be tried by the legislature and not the courts, which is a common arrangement in other countries. The Congress is the one writing blank checks by refusing to impeach and convict Presidents based on party politics.
Ding ding! You got it!
This mess with Trump is another symptom of our Congress being more intent on taking
bribescampaign donations and retaining their personal power than handling the business of the nation.Not to mention an “official act” likely can’t be defined as intentionally ignoring the supreme courts ruling. Not only can Congress file impeachment and the Senate remove him, I don’t see how they couldn’t charge him with treason for doing so. Will they, no. But it should be fully within the parameters of what the supreme Court ruled
Yet fuckhead McConnell said that trump needed to be tried in court, not in Congress via impeachment. If neither branch will step up, it’s carte blanche and the game is over.