r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/Jimid41 1d ago

Maybe the constitution needed a little bit of rethinking when the only branch of government it gave any bit of agency is the executive. Because nobody is going to stop him.

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u/EarthRester Pennsylvania 1d ago

Congress does actually have agency, and even judicial can deputize martials (kinda) to bring in people to stand in front of a judge. While The Supreme Court has effectively made Trump immune to the law, the same cannot be set for his cabinet, and Rubio is technically the one to blame for ignoring the court order to not have that plane full of legal residents take off to el salvador, and then ignoring the order to turn it around after it did.

It's just that congress is complicit in this coup, and no judge wants to be the first to take physical action against the other two branches.

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u/Jimid41 1d ago

When they're covered in security and their locations unknown then nobody deputized by the courts are getting near anyone in the cabinet. Congress was calling on Trump to get the national guard to Congress when they were overrun by rioters. They're not bringing anyone to heel even if they wanted to.

Even if it looked like the Senate was going to convict him he has no problem with interrupting their proceedings.

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u/apatheticsahm 1d ago

Thats not exactly true. There are more powers given to the legislative branch than to the executive in the actual constitution. Over time, Congress slowly gave more and more power to the executive, until we have the mess we're in today.

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u/definitelyTonyStark 1d ago

It was incredibly stupid to give the executive a monopoly on violence. The other branches should have armies to enforce their decisions, maybe even with enforcement from allied forces. Yes, that could be swung 2 branches on 1, yes political forces can corrupt that anyways, I still legitimately think it’s better to enforce a civil war to break the rule of law than to just it carelessly die to neglect.

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u/iambecomesoil 1d ago

Maybe the constitution needed a little bit of rethinking

In the US, the Constitution is a holy document put together by a group of patron saints hovering 6 inches above the constitutional congress chamber floors draped in the glory of God.

To suggest that anything was missed, or anything has materially changed in the intervening CENTURIES, is tantamount of treason and you're lucky we don't give you the Electric Chair.

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u/mouse_8b 1d ago

Same for the Bible

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u/LuxNocte 1d ago

The Constitution is from the Bible, silly.

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u/mouse_8b 1d ago

It makes so much sense! Thank you!

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u/Atheist-Gods 1d ago

The constitutional powers of the executive branch are the smallest of the 3 branches. The problem is that the legislature has continually given the executive branch their power and now a large part of the government is willing to just completely ignore all laws to hand Trump more power.