Over the last few decades the American Congress has ceded more and power to the President…
Wars….
Conflicts….
The Economy…
Immigration….
While Congress is a body of 400+…
The President is a chief executive …
He calls the shots…
None of previous White House inhabitians have completely ignored or gone to war with Congress looking over their or their workers shoulders ….
The seige will continue as long as Trump is in the house…
We see that in fact America has NO way to deal with a rouge President who has scared his party members in Congress into submission…
I used to say we don’t have a ‘King’…
I might be wrong….
“The real risk of the Trump administration’s blanket stonewalling of Congress is that it’s fundamentally altered the balance of power that our framers intended,” Schiff said in an interview Saturday. “If a president can thwart congressional oversight that means any future president can be as corrupt as they choose and there’s no recourse.”
Some liberal Democrats want their party to do more to force compliance with oversight requests, concerned the response to the Trump administration’s truculence has been too timid. Lawmakers, including Schiff, have discussed the possibility of trying to fine, censure or withhold money from obstinate Trump officials — but even those possibilities, they warn, may do nothing.
For the 277 days that Trump has faced an adversarial House Democratic majority, his administration has worked systematically to resist congressional investigations and further diminish Capitol Hill’s power to keep the executive branch in check.
Administration officials have ignored subpoenas, blocked witnesses from testifying and even defied the legislative power of the purse stipulated in the Constitution.
This past week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to comply with a deadline for handing over documents related to the impeachment inquiry over Ukraine, saying Saturday that while his department would “do all the things we’re required to do by law” he considered much of the Democrats’ efforts with regard to his department as “harassment.”
Under the Trump presidency, Capitol Hill has become accustomed to executive resistance.
Faced with a Congress unwilling to offer funding for a border wall, Trump instead declared a national emergency to get around the legislative branch and dedicate money to the project by taking funds away from military construction accounts. He has also relied heavily on acting Cabinet officials, denying the Senate its role to vet and vote to confirm administration candidates under the “advise and consent” requirement laid out in the Constitution. The top ranks of the Homeland Security Department, which oversees Trump’s top policy priority of immigration, are made up almost entirely of acting officials who have not been scrutinized by the Senate.
And throughout his term, Trump has been aided by Republican lawmakers who have shown little appetite to help curb the president’s executive authority — hastening the decline of congressional power that had already been chipped away for decades….
image …marketwatch.com
In the end?
I would think Trump’s position of NOT. dealing with giving ANYTHING to Congress would fail in the Federal court even up to the GOP majority Supreme’s…
The strategy from Trump’s lawyers has to be to push Pelosi to a quick vote before any court rulings….
Grodwy looks like joke with the 180 degree change from his Benzhi days….
“Grodwy looks like joke with the 180 degree change from his Benzhi days….”
might (?) translate to
“[Trey] Gowdy looks like a joke with the 180 degree change from his Benghazi days….”
[Now that I have a cell phone which I hardly ever use except when my computer fails, I understand how it’s all to easy to misspell or rely on an unreliable Autofill. Better to use a desktop, laptop or tablet.]
you called it…..
Thanks my editor guy….
Update…
Gowdy will NOT join the Trump impeachment group…..
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“For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump’s outside legal defense and a symbol of a streamlined effort to respond to a fast-moving impeachment inquiry,” the New York Times reports.
“A day later, the arrangement fell apart, with lobbying rules prohibiting Mr. Gowdy from starting until January, possibly after the inquiry is over. Now, according to two people familiar with events, Mr. Gowdy is never expected to join the team. And Trump advisers are back to square one, searching for a different lawyer.”
Politicalwire…
Any lawyer for Trump can be assured that he will be countermanded and tripped up by their client….