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No ####### way would the "Trump renominates Garland" thing ever happen. 
I think it highly unlikely too but if I were Dem leadership I would be trying to offer something up to Trump for it.

He considers himself a deal-maker first and foremost. If he thought he was getting something good enough out of it it's not impossible he could bite. 

Definitely a Hail Mary though. 

 
Well tariffs are what a lot of populist Trump supporters wanted- and some of the Bernie fans as well for that matter. It's a simplistic response that they believe will protect jobs in the midwest. But it won't. 

But Trump won and it looks like, despite all of the free traders he has appointed to work with him, he might actually go through with this. Now we'll see. 

 
Question for the Constitutional scholars: tariffs are a form of taxation, right? Does a President have the right to tax by executive order? 

 
I think it highly unlikely too but if I were Dem leadership I would be trying to offer something up to Trump for it.

He considers himself a deal-maker first and foremost. If he thought he was getting something good enough out of it it's not impossible he could bite. 

Definitely a Hail Mary though. 
I would like some of what you are smoking.

 
no.  I think Ichan would be great in this spot.

8 years ago when #### was hitting the fan, Ichan had a blog going that I was reading.  He made the claim that what he did as a corporate raider was find companies that were under performing due to gross incompetence from the board of directors and re-structure.  Sometimes that meant breaking up comapnies, but if the board was really as bad as he claimed, that was inevitable anyways.  Anyways, he got pretty deep into how boards are structured - how it becomes a giant boys-club, where they all appoint each other to sit on boards and give themselves giant raises.  It's pretty disgusting how it all works at the high levels.  

Ichan is a guy who understands the rot at the top levels of our corporations.  He has profited from the rot bigly.  If anyone knows how to fix that, it's him.

looks like he has re-launched his blog - I haven't read anything here, but will be doing so shortly.
Yeah the guy is real hero for buying an under performing company and making it, and all the jobs it supports, disappear. Of course there's an enormous ripple effect because of that too. 

 
I admit I don't understand the limits of executive orders. I've never understood. This issue came up when Obama granted amnesty to all those kids: I was happy with the result but uncomfortable about whether or not he had the power to do it. Obama, however, was not really an abuser of executive orders by historical terms- he issued far less than many of his predecessors. Trump looks ripe to issue far more and I suspect a lot of court challenges.

 
I admit I don't understand the limits of executive orders. I've never understood. This issue came up when Obama granted amnesty to all those kids: I was happy with the result but uncomfortable about whether or not he had the power to do it. Obama, however, was not really an abuser of executive orders by historical terms- he issued far less than many of his predecessors. Trump looks ripe to issue far more and I suspect a lot of court challenges.
It's fairly simple- the president can issue an executive order on anything- he can issue one declaring that the FFA should be nicer to Timschochet if he wants.  But it will only have the force of law if it is within his powers as assigned by the constitution or federal legislation. 

If someone is aggreived by an executive order and thinks the order is beyond the scope of the presidents authority they can bring a legal challenge and will presumably prevail if they are right.  The fact that successful challenges are relatively few and far between should tell you something about whether all the whining about these is overblown. 

 
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I admit I don't understand the limits of executive orders. I've never understood. This issue came up when Obama granted amnesty to all those kids: I was happy with the result but uncomfortable about whether or not he had the power to do it. Obama, however, was not really an abuser of executive orders by historical terms- he issued far less than many of his predecessors. Trump looks ripe to issue far more and I suspect a lot of court challenges.
There are a few problems here:

- no party will ever stop using them in principle. So every administration can point the finger at the last one to justify why they use them.

- One of Obama's EOs was halted in court as illegal, he did go too far at least once. That has happened only twice before. And it's not the quantity of EOs that matters it's the quality.

- Substative EOs are a problem because they typically mean that a decision has not gone through public debate and may even be unpopular. This causes people to get pretty aggravated because they feel like they are being rode over in an undemocratic fashion. They can have negative political consequences.

- Almost any EO under the sun is justifiable because all a president has to do is find an active law from the nation's history with some kind of language enabling the president to enact and enforce it. So typically the legal memoranda backing them are mere shams.

 
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I admit I don't understand the limits of executive orders. I've never understood. This issue came up when Obama granted amnesty to all those kids: I was happy with the result but uncomfortable about whether or not he had the power to do it. Obama, however, was not really an abuser of executive orders by historical terms- he issued far less than many of his predecessors. Trump looks ripe to issue far more and I suspect a lot of court challenges.
Executive Orders are how Senator Palpatine became the Emperor in Star Wars, wasn't it?  Scary stuff.  

 
Obviously I have selfish interests here: California, and especially where I live, has a booming import-export industry with the Pacific Rim that grows larger every year. We're talking billions, perhaps trillions of dollars. A 5% tarrif will severely hurt us. 

But beyond that it's simply a punishment on all consumers. And I am extremely skeptical that it will save any jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania. 

 
New tweet - 

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump - The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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Anyone know what he means when he writes "...until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes"?

 
Obviously I have selfish interests here: California, and especially where I live, has a booming import-export industry with the Pacific Rim that grows larger every year. We're talking billions, perhaps trillions of dollars. A 5% tarrif will severely hurt us. 

But beyond that it's simply a punishment on all consumers. And I am extremely skeptical that it will save any jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania. 
New Orleans is one of the biggest ports in the world. The idea flat out sucks.

 
I chuckle about how the left wants Trump voters to criticize him...why don't you wait until he is actually President and we actually see how his appointments perform and the actual results of his policies once they are actually implemented...this is like fantasy politics where many seem to already know the results before anything has been done...kind of reminds me of the pre-election analysis and projections...
So if I were President and proposed single-payer healthcare you would not criticize it and would just say "eh, let's try this out and see how it actually works."  Yea, that's not how things work.

 
New tweet - 

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump - The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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Anyone know what he means when he writes "...until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes"?
We must continue to ramp up our nuclear weapons program until the world realizes we should do away with nuclear weapons.  Sounds legit.

 
New tweet - 

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump - The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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Anyone know what he means when he writes "...until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes"?
The U.S. must strengthen and expand our nuclear capabilities, until we demonstrate to the world how bad having nuclear capability is? 

 
New tweet - 

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump - The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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Anyone know what he means when he writes "...until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes"?
Who knows? But I don't like this at all. It's scary. 

 
Question for the Constitutional scholars: tariffs are a form of taxation, right? Does a President have the right to tax by executive order? 
This should be Henry and RHE, but I did pass the bar, unbelievably (please, no comment from either of them). I did know that tariffs are an explicit grant in the Const. 

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h394.html

eta* and Tobias, sorry. Tobias taught me about rfras

 
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New tweet - 

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump - The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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Anyone know what he means when he writes "...until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes"?
Maybe he should consider No Twitter here.

 
Hey Saints this Forbes piece suggests the tarrifs by executive order may not be legal after all: 

https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/12/22/donald-trumps-seriously-bad-idea-a-5-tax-or-tariff-on-all-imports/?client=safari

The argument is that we have treaties with these nations and that Trump can't break them by himself. 
I'm inclined to agree with that and that's my personal preference but every president is told that their EOs are potentially illegal and they proceed anyway. Honestly IMO a constitutional amendment and bipartisan opposition to substantive EOs is needed. 

In the end my guess is Trump won't listen to any constitutional arguments.

 
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I'm inclined to agree with that and that's my personal preference but every president is told that their EOs are potentially illegal and they proceed anyway. Honestly IMO a constitutional amendment and bipartisan opposition to substantive EOs is needed. 

In the end my guess is Trump won't listen to any constitutional arguments.
I don't know why you'd say that, he made it clear that he's a big fan of Article XII.

 
I don't know why you'd say that, he made it clear that he's a big fan of Article XII.
Remember when the Tea Party had Constitutions in their pockets on the way to rallies? It didn't mean much, but when they would actually read it, they would learn something. 

This is no Tea Party. 

 
A 5% across the board tariff is about as moronic as you can get.  

BTW, how can an investor like Icahn with his holdings be an advisor on regulations?

 
Ha good point. He's got the best Articles really.
I know there's a lot of mindboggling stuff about a Trump presidency, but to me the fact that he doesn't understand the basics of the Constitution is right up there.  It's hard to come up with an exact parallel, but it's kind of like we hired a CEO who doesn't understand the basics of corporate governance (shareholders, board of directors, etc) or a coach who doesn't understand the basic rules of the game.

 
New tweet - 

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump - The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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Anyone know what he means when he writes "...until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes"?
That will end well

 
Looks like Trump is doubling down on limiting or shutting off completely immigrants from terrorist states.  Extreme vetting!!

Good deal.  We need fewer Abduls and Mohammeds from the Middle East and more Veronikas and Natalias from Eastern Europe.  MAGA!!!!

 
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