Justice Dept. Nominees Suggest Some Court Orders Can Be Ignored
Justice Dept. Nominees Suggest Some Court Orders Can Be Ignored
At a confirmation hearing, the nominees, two of whom have been Trump defense lawyers, offered little to assuage Democrats’ fears.
Lawyers for President Trump in line to take top jobs at the Justice Department sparred with Democrats on Wednesday over whether the administration could simply ignore some court orders — an early skirmish in a larger fight over the White House’s efforts to claim more sweeping presidential powers.
The debate, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, unfolded as three nominees testified during a confirmation hearing to join the upper ranks of the Justice Department. Two of the nominees, Harmeet K. Dhillon and D. John Sauer, have long worked as personal lawyers for Mr. Trump.
The third, Aaron Reitz, selected to lead the Office of Legal Policy, was questioned about an old social media post in which he suggested that Mr. Trump follow the example set by President Andrew Jackson, who ignored a Supreme Court order in 1832.
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If you cant hold someone to account in a court of law, there is no law.
Right ? Like the vice president stating that judges can’t tell the president what to do would have resulted in an uproar with him probably losing his job in the process in any serious country. But in the usa the serious stuff drowns in the dumb stuff and people won’t know there is no democracy anymore until it’s too late which possibly is now.
America will not return to it’s position in the world nor it‘s (arguably already very corrupt) system.
The water is red The sharks are here already
Laws for thee, but obviously only not for me