| ▲ | pred_ 2 days ago | |||||||||||||
And when you have an executive on one hand stating that only the president and the AG can interpret laws for the executive [0] and that you can't break laws if you're "saving the country" [1], that approach also just doesn't seem too promising. [0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu... Sec. 7 [1] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1140091792251... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rob74 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Or, as JD Vance wrote, "Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power." (https://x.com/JDVance/status/1888607143030391287). You really have to read it twice to understand just how far out that phrase is. So now it's the executive itself deciding what's "legitimate" (=conforming to the law), not the courts, whose role it is to interpret and enforce laws? | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | darkwater 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
This will end badly and it will not be fun at all in the end, but it is fascinating to watch how this new wave of fascism unfolds. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | kornork 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Honest question: who else, internal to the executive branch, and besides the president, should be able to interpret the laws for the executive branch? By my reading, this is a clarification that if an agency makes a significant policy change or regulation, they ought to run it by the president first. It doesn't preclude other branches of government from checking this power. | ||||||||||||||
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