Putting trump's Threats in Writing Doesn't Make Them Law
A Judge Demolishes trump's Assault on Law Firms
Howell meticulously analyzed Trump’s unconstitutional and tyrannical edict, striking it down in its entirety.
Howell quashed on First and Fifth Amendment grounds one of the most cynical edicts ever issued by a U.S. president, foiling his scheme “to target lawyers for their representation of clients and avowed progressive employment policies in an overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints.”
Howell’s handiwork should also underscore that a great many executive edicts are utterly, obviously ineffective. Some are blatantly unconstitutional; others are beyond the powers of any official (e.g., renaming the Gulf of Mexico). Still others are absurd attempts to contradict statutes (e.g., recasting Veterans Day).
Reducing Trump’s autocratic fantasies to writing does not necessarily change the law, let alone the Constitution or objective reality.
We have a do-nothing Congress, a president claiming bizarre, unlimited powers to pursue revenge, but—thank goodness—judges across the country who appear determined to protect our constitutional system from Trump’s predations. If it rediscovers its constitutional responsibilities, Congress might tip the balance in favor of the rule of law.
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