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re: Does a President have absolute authority?
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:09 pm to fatheadgator
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:09 pm to fatheadgator
That was an idiotic statement by him and if Obama said it, this board would’ve crashed by now. Be consistent.
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Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:10 pm to Indefatigable
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BREAKING: There absolutely are no absolutes
Fify
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:10 pm to fatheadgator
So if he has no authority to open it up (as I assume your saying).....then tell me how he had the authority to shut it down??
I’ll wait
I’ll wait
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:11 pm to JawjaTigah
quote:I was just thinking how he should respond to these irate news readers asking him nonsensical stuff about reopening: "Obama had a pen and phone, mine's platinum and gold, next question."
Executive Orders were how past Presidents bypassed the authority issue. Bush and especially Obama made frequent use of it.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:11 pm to fatheadgator
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fatheadgator
Does a President have absolute authority?
...hint: Trump doesn’t...not did Obama nor did GWB...and neither will our next
You are correct, sir!But, Trump clearly does not give a shite and neither do the people who support him. He and we have ahd enough of these despicable and deplorable media members who exist within their own echo chamber. Trump is now in full campaign mode and he is going scorched earth.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:11 pm to hendersonshands
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That was an idiotic statement by him and if Obama said it, this board would’ve crashed by now. Be consistent.
It was an answer to a specific gotcha question that he wasnt going to give on
It wasn't like he just stood up and proclaimed it
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:12 pm to fatheadgator
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my fellow conservatives
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:12 pm to DrSteveBrule
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just like trump doesn't have the authority to open things up.
Interstate commerce and supremacy, he absolutely does and can
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:13 pm to Sidicous
I think Mike Pence has just (and perfectly) settled the matter.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:15 pm to honeybadger07
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So if he has no authority to open it up (as I assume your saying).....then tell me how he had the authority to shut it down??
Tell me where I’ve said he had the authority to shut it down?
I think the President should have a done a better job making sure that states started making plans for the inevitable...i think overall the government gets a D on their responses - mainly bc it was reactionary and not planned
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:15 pm to fatheadgator
The federal government has very wide authority over interstate commerce, should they choose to exercise it. He could force businesses open that affect interstate commerce.
Local restaurants even since they probably purchase outside their state. I think FDR's supreme court cemented this authority when a man was forced to stop growing his own wheat because it affected interstate commerce.
I'm not a lawyer, so don't hold me to the FDR timeline or the fact that it was wheat.
By the way, a very bad precedent by the supreme court.
Local restaurants even since they probably purchase outside their state. I think FDR's supreme court cemented this authority when a man was forced to stop growing his own wheat because it affected interstate commerce.
I'm not a lawyer, so don't hold me to the FDR timeline or the fact that it was wheat.
By the way, a very bad precedent by the supreme court.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:22 pm to fatheadgator
Stafford Act
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:24 pm to fatheadgator
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...hint: Trump doesn’t...not did Obama nor did GWB...and neither will our next
He's got a phone and pen...
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:26 pm to fatheadgator
Dude went a little fascy there..
It was kinda weird
It was kinda weird
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:26 pm to fatheadgator
Pen and a phone?
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:27 pm to fatheadgator
Of course he does. Lol
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:28 pm to fatheadgator
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:29 pm to fatheadgator
He knows how to control a narrative, he knew they wouldn’t let that go 
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:29 pm to fatheadgator
Someone has no clue that the entire US and all its territories are operating under a declaration of emergency. It is not business as usual.
Now in your ignorantly esteemed wisdom, what one person controls that declaration and the ramifications from it?
Now in your ignorantly esteemed wisdom, what one person controls that declaration and the ramifications from it?
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