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Trump signs new order to vastly expand presidential powers

www.thedailybeast.com Trump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand Presidential Powers

The president’s new executive order would give him control over independent agencies, testing a once-fringe legal theory. Lawsuits are sure to follow.

Summary

Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding presidential control over independent agencies, including the FTC, FCC, and SEC.

The order enforces the “unitary executive theory,” which argues the president has sole authority over the executive branch. It grants Trump’s budget chief, Russell Vought, oversight of these agencies’ performance and budgets.

The move is expected to face legal challenges, as past presidents have largely respected agency independence.

Trump defended the order, stating, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

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America, when are you going to stop this? You finally have a chance to exercise the second amendment, to defend your freedom and to show the world you aren't the bad guys; And you do nothing...

Trump/Musk are literally following the steps laid out by Hitler and they aren't even hiding it.
I'm rewatching handmaid's tale in absolute despair and I'm not even american. You people need to fight, not only for yourselves and your country but for the rest of us who are living in America's shadow. You set yourself up as the land of the free - you can't fall. There's too much riding on you. We'll all follow, if America goes. If Hitler was American...

And when you get rid of these assholes, don't allow the same shitty systemic injustices. You need to institute a libertarian socialist society and start being a true leader for the rest of the world, no more robbing poor countries.
If Congress wasn't filled with feckless lickspittles, they could just not fund the executive branch. But they are, so they will
I hate they way he coops that quote that was meant for luigi.
Legal challenges? They are ignoring the courts. How will that change anything?

When do we start exercising our second amendment on this tyrannical dictator?
Absolutely literally -
I don't even have the words to express my feelings properly to this bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Trump defended the order, stating, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Okay, Adolf.
What is the legal argument against this? The article was paywalled, but the summay only says that past presidents have respected agency independence. That sounds like just a gentlemans agreement. Nothing legally binding. So do the challenges have a leg to stand on?
Where are the American "patriots" who would defend democracy and protect the country against tyranny with their 2A rights to their dying breath?

That's right. Fucking crickets from that bunch.
Remember about this in the next terms when the new president will not revert this order.
Laws are more like suggestions.
FCC huh? There goes TV that's against him
It's terrifying to think that there's still nearly 4 years left of this.
Wishing for more wishes
That's why they call these oversite positions "quasi-judicial". Congress has explicit power to create judicial bodies not specified in the Constitution. Of course, who knows what this Supreme Court will do with the plain text.
Colour me shocked.
Can’t think of any way this will come back and bite us. /s
Trump voters in my area of the country are still extremely happy with what Trump and Musk are doing. When Trump eventually invests all of social security in his meme coin they will probably be thrilled with that too.
God what a fucking terrible anus mouth. I hate when it smiles.
He's so Meta. A Dictator dictating that he can dictate.
All the fucking dictators say the same shit.
So Trump doesn't love his country?

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