Trump: I Have Absolute Authority

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  1. chris155au

    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    I meant all three branches of government. You asked, "which branch of government has authority to make rules?" I'm saying that it's all three. At least that what I THINK.
     
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    Well, all three have made rules, that's true. I'm not crazy about either the Executive or Judicial branches making rules. But yeah, there's precedent for it.
     
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    Testing is sorta futile. So if a person comes stumbling in to the ER with a 100 degree temp, it's pretty obvious, but hell test the person.. If you test a person on Monday and that person test negative, then explain how the very minute he leaves the test site they don't contract the virus on the street, market or from a contaminated surface? Sound a little futile to me, unless you test your people every couple days and if they do test positive after a few day then where are you and all the others he was in contact with at the Gov building, Hospital, and the SCHOOLS :shock:
     
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    ...like Trump.
     
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    Yup.

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    Daniel, do you really think it's fair to criticize a person for his physical appearance? BTW, I think that's a photo of George C. Scott, not Mussilini.
     
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    No he doesn’t. Only someone with as big an ego as he has could believe such.
     
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    Executive branch would be via Executive Order and Judicial would be via the Supreme Court making landmark rulings which basically becomes the law of the land such as Roe v Wade?
     
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    He could fire Mueller because Mueller
    was an employee of the executive branch. that's completely different than saying that he has the authority to order States to end stay-at-home orders. He has no legal authority over the states except where the Constitution clearly says that he does. The only way he would have the authority he claims is if he declared martial law. He decided to leave it to the states and leave the authority with the state governors. and that means the state governors are the only ones with the authority to decide to end it in their states.
     
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    Yes. Roe v. Wade's problem was that it went further than striking down a particular statute before the court. It went further and established trimesters as criteria for measuring all future laws.
     
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    Lower federal courts don't make laws do they?
     
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    No, I can't think of any laws or rules they have made, but the busing orders they have made come pretty close to the same:

    In the early 1970s, a series of court decisions found that the racially imbalanced schools trampled the rights of minority students. As a remedy, courts ordered the racial integration of school districts within individual cities, sometimes requiring the racial composition of each individual school in the district to reflect the composition of the district as a whole.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing

     
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    Do we know how "racially imbalanced schools trampled the rights of minority students?" I always thought that the only negative was that the kids would grow up thinking that they need to stay away from people of a different colour.
     
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    I think the problem as that the segregated schools that blacks were forced to attend were inferior and given fewer resources. The "right" was to equal treatment. I don't say that busing fixed the problem, but that was the problem.
     
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    I'll see your foolishness and raise you a hand of hyperbolic, lack of ration...

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    Deleted, only one post is needed.
     
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    Well presumably the alternative was to bring those schools to a higher quality so that they were resourced equally.
     
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    That would have worked, and arguably better. We'll never know ....
     
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    For your personal satisfaction certainly, but not anywhere close for the good of the nation.
     
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