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Every day, Donald Trump shatters his previous understanding of the presidency and the role of America.
But as they run on a massive scale and rush to fulfill the promises of the campaign, the new Chief commander is straining the rule of law and gambling with global stability.
Before his second term began, the president was supposed to refuse to spend the billions already approved by Congress and not to deploy civilians like Elon Musk. Ta.
The idea that the White House simply ignores court orders was more of a theoretical question of law school seminars than a potential reality.
It would have been unthinkable to fire government aid workers living in hotspots around the world. Disrupt programs believed to save the lives of millions of HIV/AIDS patients.
Other presidents hatched plans to push Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt and Jordan. This is a step that threatens Camp David Accord, destroys the Kingdom of Hashemite, effectively equivalent to ethnic cleansing.
Nor will the traditional commander of the chief propose to support fellow democracies like Ukraine, invaded by totalitarian Russia, conditioned on Kiev to hand over rare earth minerals as payment.
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No modern president threatened to annex Canada, an American friend.
And countries that have become the most powerful in history by building global systems on democratic and capitalist images have assaulted the free trade system with tariffs, or loosened curbs with bribery in foreign business transactions. There was very little to do.
Trump sits at Resolute Desk in his oval office, risking to ignite a constitutional crisis overseas, distributing his power with Sharpies, supplementing foreign policy from the cuffs, and making this a reality. I’ve gone all the way.
The president’s ability to track these policies, such as his ability to track, defines his second presidency. His success also includes his ability to transform the office he currently holds and rebuild the global order he has won since the end of World War II.
A master of confusion, Trump claims he is simply doing what the country wants, so he doesn’t apologise.
“I use common sense, so I have a high approval rating,” Trump told reporters Monday. He only exercises orders to bring a sledgehammer to the government and change the table of planets that he says have been torn from the US for generations, so the extraordinary presidential power is the extraordinary command. It presents the claim.
“Many people say this is the biggest opening in the history of the presidency in almost three weeks,” the president told Fox News in a Super Bowl interview. The second season’s debut tour.
The White House forces Western hemisphere countries to reclaim undocumented immigrants, get better deals than US ships on the Panama Canal, Canada and Mexico tighten border security, Hamas in Gaza He claims great victory by forcing him to be free. Some of these victories are partly authentic. Exaggeration; or illusion. But Trump says it’s the beginning of his new “golden age.”
And the president has been basked in some of the highest recognition ratings of his career. He was shown at 53% this weekend in CBS News votes. If President Joe Biden’s final months regress to Stasis, Trump’s frenzy of activities appears to build the image of a man of conduct doing business in the country.
Trump attacked the promising change in 2024, the attack on the strengthening borders, the Washington agency, and the demolition of the world’s trading system, which many Americans are responsible for destroying manufacturing jobs, and the world’s elite. received multiple votes saying he enjoyed the loot.
No one can say that he wasn’t as good as he said.
But Trump’s fast start – growing from the need to constantly project strength, his sense of being saved from assassin bullets to save America – takes great risks into the US political system It’s there.
Domestic, Trump poses a threat to the rule of law in multiple ways. And just three weeks after his term, many legal analysts believe the country is heading towards an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
These horrors were sent to overdrive on Sunday by Vice President J.D. Vance’s X-Post.
“Judges are not permitted to control the legitimate power of executives,” Vance said. Comments from the former Ohio Senator reflect the young White House’s tendency to simply declare the legality of presidential action and ignore other departments of government.
Vance’s post was amazing for two reasons.
First, the administration has already created so many tests of the rule of law, starting with Trump’s attempt to override the constitutional principles of birthright citizenship, that multiple judges have said he intervened to freeze plans.
Secondly, Trump is not a rookie president, so he is bent his political muscles in the first few weeks of his inauguration. He refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, forgiven hundreds of mobs who tried to maintain him in power on January 6, 2021, and forgive Trump’s two first rounds each. By doing so, he proves his light-empt against democracy. , showing that his fellow Republicans are likely to do little to explain him.
Still, some Republicans argue that traditional American constraints on the president are held firmly. “So the courts are clearly like a branch of government that calls balls, strikes, judges, and I think they have an important role to play.”
During the first weeks of power, Trump raised particular concerns by simply trying to shut down institutions such as the U.S. International Development Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Each of these bodies is rooted in the law as they were created by the law of Parliament. Regardless, the president told reporters that his plan was to eliminate the CFPB. “We’re trying to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse,” he said Monday.
By simply working to clear the list of government agencies, Trump is ignoring Congress’ will. This has already been expressed as a diversion of federal funds. The Constitution does not choose to the President whether to enact expenditures allocated by lawmakers. They need to do that. The White House claims that Trump has a voter mandate to cut spending and waste. He is not the only president who will attempt to bypass Congressional will along with his enforcement authority. For example, former President Barack Obama’s “Pen and Phone Strategy” appears to sometimes sail near the law. But if all new presidents ignored previous laws passed in Congress, America would no longer have a constitutional republic.
Fear that Trump plans to ignore the powers of another branch of government, the judicial division, has fuelled its federal judge on Monday when he instructed the administration to restore grant and loan payments. It was supplied. Rhode Island Judge Judge John McConnell said the administration violated his previous instructions to freeze billions of dollars with federal aid. In another case in Washington, D.C., a federal employee told a judge that the administration failed to revive USAID workers who had taken leave.
The constitutional crisis appears to be on the verge of looming – even if the administration has not yet completely ignored the courts.
Steve Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, told CNN’s Erika Hill on Monday. “And I think the courts are doing their job, at least for now,” however Vladeck added: “The question of whether administrative actions are actually legal is historically not that we leave it to administrative agencies.”
Still, the growing fear of lawless administration is underpinned by multiple indications that Trump views the rule of law as inconvenient. For example, he fired dozens of prosecutors who joined on January 6th shortly after returning to the White House.
And the prominent role of Musk, the pioneer of high-tech leader Trump’s Office of Government Efficiency, in shredding the vast federal sector, is also the huge government contracts his companies, including SpaceX, enjoy. He is an amazing ethics expert when you consider it.
Trump exacerbated these fears on Monday with the firing of the head of the government’s ethics department.
This came when the president gave former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich a full pardon. He was convicted of multiple charges, including attempting to sell a US Senate seat previously held by Obama.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Justice Department has instructed prosecutors to stop New York City Mayor Eric Adams from federal corruption cases. The department claims that the claims are distracting the Democratic mayor from supporting Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts, and therefore he uses the DOJ to barter for political favors. It reinforced concerns that they were planning.
The president also tried to bounce back the enforcement power overseas. He repeatedly became Canada’s 51st province after being serious about his relocation plan.
I don’t think it’s too small for his attention. He also reversed the Biden administration environmental initiative to move away from the paper straws of the catering industry. “(They) break, they explode. If something is hot, it doesn’t last as long as minutes, sometimes just seconds. That’s a ridiculous situation,” Trump said.
“So we’re going back to plastic straws.”
