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Old 09-02-2017, 14:49   #122
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Re: U.S President: Donald Trump

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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
Is he doing what he wants ? No, so all you just posted there is largely irrelevant.

He is being critical of the judges actions, just like you or I would be when a Judge hands the wrong sentence to someone who is clearly guilty of something. You cannot kill off free speech, just because:

A) You don't like the person.
B) You don't like what is said.
Perhaps this might make things clearer...

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blo...-but-there-are
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Executive orders give Trump lots of power, but there are limits
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The first weeks of President Trump's presidency has seen a wave of executive orders signed, all of which are controversial. Among other actions, the president has proposed making true on his campaign promise to "build the wall" along the U.S. southern border and, more recently, issued a travel ban on refugees coming from seven Muslim-majority nations.

There has been much written by the media, political scientists, members of the legal community and other pundits about the power and influence of executive orders. While I do not wish to minimize the importance of this power of the president, I believe that a fuller description and explanation of the limits on executive orders deserve to be aired, as well.

Despite the usual description of executive orders as a "unilateral power" of the president, this description is somewhat overblown.

First, few — if any — executive orders are self-executing. At least as importantly, there are many checks on the reach of executive orders outside the executive branch, and at least one major check within the executive branch.

In this article, I discuss four important limits on executive orders: the federal judiciary, Congress, the public and the Office of Legal Counsel. It is true that executive orders carry the force of law, but they are far less permanent than laws because they can be overturned with ease by subsequent presidents. And, like legislation passed by Congress, they are subject to checks and balances built into the governing system described in the Constitution....

,,,The federal judiciary consistently reviews executive orders, and while the vast majority of executive orders are not overturned by federal courts, some have been ruled unconstitutional by federal courts.

In the near-immediate wake of attempted enforcement, District Court Judge Ann Donnell issued a stay on Trump's travel ban.

The second and third limits on presidential power are Congress and the public, and because of the representative nature of the legislative branch, these limits often go hand-in-hand.

Famously, President Obama — like Trump — used an executive order to attempt to fulfill a campaign promise; in Obama's case, to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, within a year of taking office.

Despite the president's action, Congress prevented this action by refusing to fund the effort. The effort was overwhelming, with a 90-6 vote in the Senate. Individual members of Congress spoke out publicly about preventing Obama from shifting detainees to domestic prison sites.
The President does not have unilateral powers, the other arms of the Government are there to provide checks and balance (just like the President does to them).

Everyone has free speech, but everyone else has the right to criticise what they say - however, as the President, what he says has much more import than just your every day voter, and he needs to recognise that.

Even his Supreme Court nominee was uncomfortable with his comments about the Judge.
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