Trump will have vast powers. He can thank Democrats for them
Nov 15, 2016 15:46:28 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Nov 15, 2016 15:46:28 GMT -5
Glenn Greenwald: Trump will have vast powers. He can thank Democrats for them.
Liberals liked executive authority as long as Obama wielded it. Now they've set a precedent.
By Glenn Greenwald November 11 2016
Liberals are understandably panicked about what Donald Trump can carry out. “We have a president-elect with authoritarian tendencies assuming a presidency that has never been more powerful,” Franklin Foer wrote this past week in Slate. Trump will command not only a massive nuclear arsenal and the most robust military in history, but also the ability to wage numerous wars in secret and without congressional authorization; a ubiquitous system of electronic surveillance that can reach most forms of human communication and activity; and countless methods for shielding himself from judicial accountability, congressional oversight and the rule of law — exactly what the Constitution was created to prevent. Trump assumes the presidency “at the peak of its imperial powers,” as Foer put it.
www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/11/glenn-greenwald-trump-will-have-vast-powers-he-can-thank-democrats-for-them/
Liberals liked executive authority as long as Obama wielded it. Now they've set a precedent.
By Glenn Greenwald November 11 2016
Liberals are understandably panicked about what Donald Trump can carry out. “We have a president-elect with authoritarian tendencies assuming a presidency that has never been more powerful,” Franklin Foer wrote this past week in Slate. Trump will command not only a massive nuclear arsenal and the most robust military in history, but also the ability to wage numerous wars in secret and without congressional authorization; a ubiquitous system of electronic surveillance that can reach most forms of human communication and activity; and countless methods for shielding himself from judicial accountability, congressional oversight and the rule of law — exactly what the Constitution was created to prevent. Trump assumes the presidency “at the peak of its imperial powers,” as Foer put it.
www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/11/glenn-greenwald-trump-will-have-vast-powers-he-can-thank-democrats-for-them/
To Democrats' Dismay, Trump Will Inherit Obama's Expanded Presidential Powers
IBD, 11/14/2016
The Presidency: With a new president much loathed by the mainstream media and progressive elites, it shouldn't be very long until we start hearing about the dangers of the "imperial presidency." Where were they, we wonder, during the Obama years?
It's quite an irony that the one whom many on the left said they couldn't stomach as president should become president and inherit a whole panoply of new presidential powers that President Obama used and no one other than conservatives objected to. Because now, a President Trump can use the same powers.
As Damon Root of Reason magazine has noted, candidate Barack Obama in 2007 professed deep concern about the expansion of executive power under President Bush, and vowed to be very different. "The president is not above the law," he said.
The New York Times got on its own high horse, ripping Bush for his "grandiose vision of executive power" all the way back in 2006. If they subsequently also shredded President Obama for his very real, extralegal expansions of executive power, we're not aware of it
www.investors.com/politics/editorials/to-democrats-dismay-trump-will-inherit-obamas-expanded-presidential-powers/
IBD, 11/14/2016
The Presidency: With a new president much loathed by the mainstream media and progressive elites, it shouldn't be very long until we start hearing about the dangers of the "imperial presidency." Where were they, we wonder, during the Obama years?
It's quite an irony that the one whom many on the left said they couldn't stomach as president should become president and inherit a whole panoply of new presidential powers that President Obama used and no one other than conservatives objected to. Because now, a President Trump can use the same powers.
As Damon Root of Reason magazine has noted, candidate Barack Obama in 2007 professed deep concern about the expansion of executive power under President Bush, and vowed to be very different. "The president is not above the law," he said.
The New York Times got on its own high horse, ripping Bush for his "grandiose vision of executive power" all the way back in 2006. If they subsequently also shredded President Obama for his very real, extralegal expansions of executive power, we're not aware of it
www.investors.com/politics/editorials/to-democrats-dismay-trump-will-inherit-obamas-expanded-presidential-powers/