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/wankbollox 1d ago

If Texas can ignore the federal government and make its own immigration policy, then I guess California can make its own trade policy. Seems fair. 

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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/tamman2000 Maine 1d ago

Felons can run for office, and for very good reason. If felons were barred from office, then a corrupt administration could cook up felonies for the leadership of the opposition and bar them from running for office.

Where I live two of the most popular things (among both democrats and republicans) are weed and guns. If you buy a gun as a weed smoker you have to violate the same law Hunter Biden violated. Elon violated it, he owns guns and uses schedule 1 drugs... Hunter was convicted only because of who his dad was. And that was with a democrat at in the WH. Think of how easy it would be for Trump to gin up phoney charges for AOC, Bernie, Buttigieg, Newson, et al. He just needs a corrupt federal prosecutor (no problem here) and a few corrupt judges (again, he has that).

You're correct about everything else.