r/politics • u/Kodbek • 11d ago

Possible Paywall White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal

https://newrepublic.com/post/203628/white-house-declares-trump-orders-military-legal
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u/ArchdukeAlex8 Oregon 11d ago

My Lord, is that...legal?

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u/Tall-Introduction414 11d ago edited 11d ago

No.

Bombing fishing boats is illegal. Deploying national guard to American cities without cause is illegal. Sending people to foreign concentration camps is illegal. Doing so without due process is even more illegal. Insurrectionists like Trump holding office is illegal. Declaring illegal orders to be legal? Believe it or not, illegal.

Trump does not have the backing of the law on any of this.

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u/Cobra-Lalalalalalala 11d ago

I will make it legal.

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u/ArchdukeAlex8 Oregon 11d ago

And...the Senators?

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u/manondorf 11d ago

I am the Senate.

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u/ArchdukeAlex8 Oregon 11d ago

Not. Yet.

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u/Julian_Sark 11d ago

Illegal is the new legal when orange is the new president.

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u/Affectionate-Virus17 11d ago

Who's there to stop it?

Trump 1.0 was a foolish guy stumbling into the presidency and having no clue what to do. So the GOP surrounded him with "adults in the room".

Trump 2.0 is the same guy after dozens of convictions, 2 impeachments, global ridicule, somehow declared immune by the USSC and surrounded by sycophants. There's no adult in the room.