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With a friendly Supreme Court, Would Clinton Rule By Decree?

With a friendly Supreme Court, Would Clinton Rule By Decree?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • No

    Votes: 15 71.4%
  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
MaggieD said:
And this is the fault of Congress, in my opinion. This EO power needs to be challenged and narrowly defined. It was begun to facilitate existing legislation. Presidents in recent history have used the power to bypass Congress and legislate directly.
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I agree, but over the years the congress members of the party which holds the white house has come to be seen as more part of the administration than a member of the institution of congress. Perhaps this has more to do with who the leaders are. Even a Democratic House under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn, Mike McCormick, Carl Albert or even Tip O'Neal would allow a president to usurp congressional power. Now that is going back a long way. The same can be said of the senate leaders at the time.

Of course there wasn't the polarization back then as there is now. Both parties had their liberal and conservative wings. You wouldn't see straight party line votes and when they did occur, they were a rarity. Congress has also ceded a lot of their constitutional power to the administration and different federal agencies over the years also. That way congress can blame the president and the agencies when things go wrong or get over burdened. It also lessens the number of tough votes they have to make and thus helps when re-election time comes. Less for the people to get mad at them.

Yep, most of it is congress's fault.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The POTUS could never get away with ignoring the federal immigration law as written. ;)
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They already get away with ignoring the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.Why would ignoring a lower law be any problem for them? They would simply claim those immigration laws that restrict illegal immigration violate the constitution and that Clinton's executive orders do not.
 
They're not decrees,they're executive orders.

:lol:
 
SDET said:
What if for example Clinton wanted to declare all illegal aliens as voting US citizens by decree and a compliant Supreme Court rubber stamped it?
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grounds for impeachment or overthrow of the government. I think lots of Democrats wouldn't go along with such idiocy
 
Someone's been listening to too many blowhards on FOX
 
Abbazorkzog said:
This is not a banana republic.
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What is a banana republic? Google only says some clothing store. Mrs. Clinton like Obama does not need my advice unlike Bush who couldn't hear me telling him to have troop surge right away and make them behave for their oil revenue. Then you would have a nice stable Iraq and no foot-hold for ISIS.

I did have a couple of pointers that Obama implemented but most of my e-mails to the White House were rambling madness and Everyone including Obama, Nasa, and Western Governors were too stupid to do anything with my recipe for making it rain on a forest fire (or desert.)

TurtleDude said:
you hoping Cankles is going to outlaw meat??
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The true cost of animal agriculture would be reflected in meat prices if we cut subsidies and more people and restaurants would become vegan.
 
Exquisitor said:
What is a banana republic? Google only says some clothing store. Mrs. Clinton like Obama does not need my advice unlike Bush who couldn't hear me telling him to have troop surge right away and make them behave for their oil revenue. Then you would have a nice stable Iraq and no foot-hold for ISIS.

I did have a couple of pointers that Obama implemented but most of my e-mails to the White House were rambling madness and Everyone including Obama, Nasa, and Western Governors were too stupid to do anything with my recipe for making it rain on a forest fire (or desert.)



The true cost of animal agriculture would be reflected in meat prices if we cut subsidies and more people and restaurants would become vegan.
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I have a great idea-if you want to graze on beans and eat only apples and corn, more power to you but I really tire of vegans trying to force the rest of us to become herbivores
 
ttwtt78640 said:
The POTUS could never get away with ignoring the federal immigration law as written. ;)
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That's just an example and, if the SCOTUS ruled it OK, then the POTUS actually could do that.
 
SDET said:
What if for example Clinton wanted to declare all illegal aliens as voting US citizens by decree and a compliant Supreme Court rubber stamped it?
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Nice fear mongering. All the paranoid political hacks on here probably had a orgasm.
 
TurtleDude said:
I have a great idea-if you want to graze on beans and eat only apples and corn, more power to you but I really tire of vegans trying to force the rest of us to become herbivores
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I'm not forcing anyone to become vegan, but why should I pay for your meat?

Fishking said:
That's just an example and, if the SCOTUS ruled it OK, then the POTUS actually could do that.
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I hope they try block Mrs. Clinton's SCOTUS appointments past 2000 so I can do more to them like I have with Trump and Mrs. Clinton.
 
Rule by decree? Seriously?

Ridiculous question.

Last I checked the Dems didn't have control of the House and Senate and the Republicans did; if anyone would 'rule by decree' with control of the SCOTUS (and everything else) it would be Trump, let's face it.
 
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