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Re: 2016 Election
Mr Trump will have his work cut out for himself if he tries to follow through on his unconstitutional promises against various groups. Bring it on Mr Trump!
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/f...?itok=Brabuy4E |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by MidAtlantic
(Post 12101449)
Better to read the Constitution where the legal power resides.
Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution which states that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted this language to include the power to grant pardons, conditional pardons, commutations of sentence, conditional commutations of sentence, remissions of fines and forfeitures, respites, and amnesties. |
Re: 2016 Election
Apologies if this Matt Taibbi article from Rolling Stone has been posted before -- I haven't the energy to trawl through all the pages since Tuesday in order to check! I think his thoughts are very accurate -- and especially when he describes Giuliani as unhinged. A sample:
"Shunned during election season by many in his own party, President-elect Trump's closest advisers are a collection of crackpots and dilettantes who will make Bush's cabinet look like the Nobel committee. The head of his EPA transition team, Myron Ebell, is a noted climate-change denier. Pyramid enthusiast and stabbing expert Ben Carson is already being mentioned as a possible Health and Human Services chief. Rudy Giuliani, probably too unhinged by now for even a People's Court reboot, might be attorney general. God only knows who might end up being Supreme Court nominees; we can only hope they turn out to be lawyers, or at least people who played lawyers onscreen. And sitting behind this fun-house nightmare of executive-branch worthies (which Politico speculates will be one of the more "eclectic" cabinets ever) will be a rubber-stamping all-Republican legislature that will attract the loving admiration of tinhorn despots from Minsk to Beijing." President Trump: How America Got It So Wrong - Rolling Stone |
Re: 2016 Election
This is a good step in the right direction for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-dnc-chairman/ |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by zargof
(Post 12102361)
This is a good step in the right direction for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-dnc-chairman/ Maybe Bernie has lit the fire under them that they needed. |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by morpeth
(Post 12101929)
And waste everyone's time, just as all these stories about Clinton. I wish the discussion would be about policies and what is best for the country. I am unsure when it will be realized by those who are against Trump people want change. Whether Sanders or Trump, they both represented change. I think except for extreme partisans, people are sick and tired of all this mud-slinging.
I could see Sanders and Trump fighting establishment republicans on infrastructure programs. ( "could" though I doubt it). |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by FlaviusAetius
(Post 12102380)
the people wanted change from the current establishment, which so many felt were leading the country in the wrong direction.
I should also remind you that Trump also received fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
(Post 12102396)
Well, that would explain why Trump received fewer votes than Mitt Romney (**cough cough**).
Obviously the majority of the people do not support any candidate and if they have in a UK or US environment I do not recollect when that was. But I am sure if Hillary had won the people would have spoken. |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 12102398)
Maybe we can agree on something, I saw the 'people' argument all the time. Both sides do it.
Obviously the majority of the people do not support any candidate and if they have in a UK or US environment I do not recollect when that was. But I am sure if Hillary had won the people would have spoken. |
Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
(Post 12102400)
You actually posted words instead of a JPG file. Are you feeling OK?
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Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by zargof
(Post 12102361)
This is a good step in the right direction for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-dnc-chairman/ |
Re: 2016 Election
Trumps comparatively subduedness since he won is oddly uncomfortable. Got to wonder if someone handed him a packet and said "This will be made public if you don't keep in line with us."
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Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by Anian
(Post 12102416)
Trumps comparatively subduedness since he won is oddly uncomfortable. Got to wonder if someone handed him a packet and said "This will be made public if you don't keep in line with us."
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Re: 2016 Election
Originally Posted by zargof
(Post 12102419)
The fact stocks have gone up suggests that Wall St has got the message that "Don't worry, Trump will on Wall St's side."
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Re: 2016 Election
Jamie Dimon for Treasury Secretary. Yeah baby, drain that swamp!
Donald Trump advisors considered JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon for treasury secretary: Sources |
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