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The last time I can remember a president just brazenly refusing to implement the law like this was when Barack Obama kept delaying Obamacare’s employer mandate, and other elements.
Yes, of course, but Biden pretended otherwise. He said that he was doing it, or that he needed more power from Congress, etc. I’m talking about cases in which the president says openly that he’s changing or delaying the law.
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Um . . . cf. border/biden/immigration-law
Not just Trump. Biden and Obama were extremely lawless. This is a modern presidency problem, not just a Trump problem.
John and Mayme Surrency were murdered the day before Thanksgiving 1936. Garland Headley was tasked with prosecuting the three men involved. What he uncovered sent him and his family fleeing the United States. What did John and Mayme know that led to their murder?
It's more amazing that he straight up admits its purely for political purposes. Doesn't even try to pretend there is legit constitutional argument. It helped me win so I will protect it...
I don't think Judge Boasberg is going to force him to act against TikTok, though.
Activist judges don't go in that direction.
As we saw with Biden and the border, a serious flaw in the American system is a structural near impossibility in forcing the president to faithfully execute the law.
We are in a post legal society. Some things that should reach the courts never do. Other things hit the courts and are a complete waste of resources. Other other things hit the courts and have some side deal or sentencing essentially make it moot
I could see a GOP Senator holding their BBB vote until this is dealt with properly.
Maybe Congress shouldn’t have been so feckless over the past 30 years or so. They’re scared to do the right thing because they’d lose their next election and ceded almost all of their authority. I don’t like, but the chickens have come home to roost. Start talking about them.
Mike Johnson, John Thune and John Roberts are sure to protest this almost any day now at a Kennedy Center performance of Advise and Consent, Mr. Cooke.
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Where are the district judges champing at the bit to stop him on this one?
I want to see it shut down. I don’t care what the effect.
It is poison for the mind and the soul.
Take Insta next.
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OK, so let’s see a Democrat file a lawsuit to get TikTok banned. That’ll be fun to watch.
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Of course when folks these days talk about whether Trump is acting legally and/or constitutionally, they're of course all talking about the Tik Tok ownership issue.
I don't think there's really anything else going on that we need to discuss as far as presidential authority.
Huge groundswell in the population to ban tik tok, everyone is so for it 
Best recent example of how utterly worthless and ridiculous our congress is.
Best recent example of how utterly worthless and ridiculous our congress is.
While I agree, it's meaningless unless someone challenges it in court. And while it's easy to find ppl who will take Trump to court over what he had for breakfast this morning, I don't think anyone has the guts and/or integrity to do it for this.
TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communists to data mine Americans.
SCOTUS ruled 9-0 TikTok is banned until it is sold to a non-Chinese owner.
But Trump is defying the law b/c he's popular on TikTok.
Trump cares far more about his popularity than U.S. national security.
Sometimes it seems like we should create a third branch of government, just for funsies.
Little things like the law don’t mean much to those who seem to believe that they are above the law
It's a huge mistake that DOJ is under the president, rather than judiciary. Presidents can break any law they want, as long as they have a willing Congress.
Congress won’t do anything about it. Wish we had Mike Gallagher in Congress again. It’s a failure of the Article 1 branch of the Constitution. They are Article 1 for a reason.
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it’s a hole in the constitution, no? scotus has no power to enforce their ruling and only remedy is impeachment - which is politically impossible
It's just more Trump corruption. Follow the money.
How quaint…you think the President cares if his whims are permitted by the “statute”
Obviously, TikTok, an alleged Chinese spy App, isn't a national security threat. If it were an actual national security threat, Congress would have given it days, instead of a year, to be shutdown or be sold, and the president wouldn't keep extending the deadline.
You finally get Congress to act on a panic and this is what you end up with? I tells ya, there oughta be a law.
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"But that's illegal" is the most pointless thing said about Trump. He knows the Supreme Court will just say "it's fine" to anything he wants.
Pfft, at this point should we even pretend that Trump, or Congress, even care whether he follows the law?
It's a national security issue, it's a law, upheld by Supreme Court. Trump's behavior makes no sense, he is getting nothing from the CCP. He's a fool at best.
It has already been proven, by both Obama and Biden, that the President is not obligated to enforce a law when he does not wish to.
There is only one set of rules.
I really don't see the big deal here Charles. There's lots of things to get overheated about, this isn't one of them.
Banning TikTok is illegal in the first place but Congress did it anyway.
Literally nobody cares. If anyone did, they’d bring suit and any one of a multitude of anti-Trump judges would issue an order to comply.
Tale of heated pot of water & Frog: Seems the way POTUS's have handled the job over past 2 decades has evolved gradually into being more autocrat & less sharing power. If Congress doesn't grow a spine & all sides stop w/ the hyper partisan crap this won't end well for America.
Laws are nothing more than words on paper by men. Follow them or don't. It really makes no difference if no one does any thing. Laws mean very little anymore. Why should Trump follow them when congress and elected democrats everywhere don't? Biden didn't. It's stupid to be
Stunning to watch Congress casually accept the principle that the President posesses a retroactive line item veto. An institution with no interests.
Interesting that none of the progressive liberal attack groups are suing over this thing…
This is an instance where the courts SHOULD step in. The concept of standing is allowing the democratic process to be thwarted.
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Tik Tok ban waffle because a donor
Illegal immigrants can stay if they are good workers, probably a donor there too
Seriously
trump is not America first, he is trump first. Those who assist him are rewarded.
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So Biden gave Trump a gift. Who is going to press Trump to enforce this sale.
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Inbred retards like you see him breaking multiple laws and you think he’s going to follow the law on tik tok
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