Message from @Reaps
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7.2
Yea. Trump just caved a little. He signed an Executive order to stop the practive and hung it all on the Dems for not wanting to change the law
Meanwhile during thia qhole smokescreen ignored was the congressional hearing with the IG
I really hate
..let's call it 'executive discretion'
Enforce the laws that are on the books *f o r e v e r y o n e* or get the *legislative branch* to *c h a n g e t h e l a w s* and you can sign off on them
I do too
Do they still teach civics in the US?
Honestly they should teach civics in other countries too, but that's besides the point
People are like *supreme court gave prosecuters the right to pick and choose what they convict*
People act like the executive branch doubles as the legislative branch, so no wonder people get so heated about whom is in the White House
Which is true. But not the right to choose the punishment
or interm
Then again, people in other countries think they get to elect whom their Prime Minister is <:thronk:441701565607444482>
Its thanks to Obama legeslating from the White House
via executive order when congress said no
People think thats the norm now.
Which is Ironic cause the left thinks the Judicial has the power of making laws too
I think it goes much further back than Obama
Obama used EO the most of any president
Most of the Presidents around the 1910s-30s ran roughshod over congress with EO spam
yeah, FDR blows Obama out of the water
And Hoover
And Wilson
And Harding
And Coolidge
fuckin' hell
Well those are all dems lol
By a factor of *ten*
Coolidge and Hoover were Rs
So was Teddy
And he's up there too
Sorry I confused debt with eo. He ran up the most dept
right
*finds shiny infograph*
Look at FDR
good lord
twice as many as the next
Reading back on those times, both parties (or at least their Presidents) sound more like Obama in how they tried to consolidate power in the executive branch
*super*-disappointing