CURRENT EVENTS April 7- 14

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What the fuck is this televised praising of Dear Leader?

I've never seen this in any sense in the United States before.
 
StrangePackage said:
What the fuck is this televised praising of Dear Leader?

I've never seen this in any sense in the United States before.
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It happened regularly in his first term. That is how the televised portion of his cabinet meetings are run.
 
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I don’t think this is a favor to the cruise industry — as of February, the Trump Administration had been targeting them as tax cheats because they register heir ships outside the USA (a pretty standard industry practice for vessels). Their stock took a beating as a result. But who knows?
 
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A bill of attainder is a law that imposes a punishment on a specific person or group of people without first going through a trial, something the Constitution explicitly forbids not once, but twice. Judge Howell’s simple question was: Are President Trump’s executive orders targeting specific law firms forbidden because they are essentially bills of attainder? The Trump administration’s lawyer responded that, “as a pure constitutional matter, . . . the bill of attainder restriction is only on Article I and not on Article II [of the Constitution], and so it doesn’t apply to the president.”

To be sure, Article I sets out the structures and powers of Congress, while Article II announces the powers of the president. But the government’s suggestion that the constitutional prohibition on attainder only applies to Article I represents a dangerous formalism that ignores separation of powers principles and contradicts clear historical practice.

The original constitutional meaning of the Bill of Attainder clauses—as revealed by text, structure, and history—all show that the president cannot issue bills of attainder. Apart from their other constitutional defects, the unprecedented Trump orders targeting individuals and organizations plainly function as bills of attainder. On their face, they are prohibited by the Constitution and repugnant to its separation of powers.

… The history books are littered with examples of English kings using bills of attainder to target their political enemies, cursorily blessed by the approval of more compliant parliaments. From Jack Cade of Kent (1450), to Thomas Cromwell(1540), to the Earl of Strafford (1641), many famous enemies of the Crown were condemned by attainder. But even if legislative approval merely gave the kingly act “political cover,” no king dared to dispense with it entirely. In short, for the 300 years leading up to the American Revolution, no British monarch acted without the “consent of lords and commons.” As far as we can tell, unilateral action was never even proposed.

… Throughout English history, bills of attainder were invariably a joint exercise—the weapon of both king and parliament working in concert. When the Framers drafted the Constitution’s prohibitions against bills of attainder, they did so with this complete historical picture in mind. The attainder was the king’s instrument as much as Parliament’s, and the Framers understood it as an abuse of governmental power broadly conceived, not merely a legislative excess.

Thus, America’s president, with powers “much inferior to” those of the British Crown, cannot claim a power even the king did not possess. …”
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They lay under the boardlike hide of a dead ox and listened to the judge calling to them. He called out points of jurisprudence, he cited cases. He expounded upon those laws pertaining to property rights in beasts mansuete and he quoted from cases of attainder insofar as he reckoned them germane to the corruption of blood in the prior and felonious owners of the horses now dead among the bones. Then he spoke of other things. The expriest leaned to the kid. Dont listen, he said.
 
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