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/TinFoilBeanieTech 1d ago

States setting their own trade agreements is totally unconstitutional, but we haven't been following that for a while now anyway. I'm hoping the whole west coast can form it's own trade coalition.

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u/jesuisapprenant 1d ago

Tariff powers don’t belong to the executive branch, the executive branch cannot defund programs unilaterally without Congressional approval, felons cannot run for office, the list goes on. 

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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.