The memos mean that the only way to hold a president accountable while in office is through impeachment. And this is where Congress has managed over the past two decades to effectively disarm its most powerful weapon of presidential oversight.
There was an alternative path that House Democrats could have pursued that would have asserted their rightful powers. They should have moved to compel Trump’s compliance with their information requests by using the third branch of government: the judiciary. By sleeping on Congress’ legal right to information bearing on impeachment, House Democrats failed to enforce the impeachment prerogative in the Constitution itself.
But while history has tolerated presidents’ initiation of military conflicts without formal declarations of war by the legislative branch, Congress is not out of the war-making picture. It is significant that the Constitution gives Congress the power to appropriate money to the military, as there was no standing army or navy at the time the Constitution was ratified.
, which have contributed to approximately 500,000 civilian and military deaths. The U.S. military has been fighting al Qaeda in Afghanistan without interruption for 18 years and while its counterterrorism activities have expanded to 39 percent of the world’s nations.
But Trump went around Congress, declared a national emergency, and then diverted funds appropriated for other purposes to build his border wall. The Trump administration engaged in some legal gymnastics to justify this switch, but that’s beside the point. A majority of both chambers voted in favor of a resolution to end the emergency. But by a 36-53 vote, the Senate failed to override Trump’s veto.
That is so true. The republicans in Congress have given up their constitutional duties and kowtowed to the tyranny of the president’s administration. If I were a republican voter I would be very angry at the congress for being subservient to the president.
LMFAO 😂 remember DACA, ACA, Iran Deal, Paris Climate Accord? Freaking hacks!
It is realDonaldTrump who thumbs his nose at any rule or regulation that stands in his way. He has done this his entire life. He never hid who he was. He will spend a billion dollars in pandering adds in 2020. It will take an unprecedented turnout to dump Trump
Will never ever understand this toadyism. Politics. But so very shameful.
You reap what you sow. Our lazy legislators have handed the Country over to a madman. NOT what the founders wanted. 3 EQUAL branches of government, NOT 1 all powerful branch. We are headed towards totalitarian rule with the approval of 45% of ignorant Americans. It’s shameful.
Clinton was accused of 11 felonies, Trump 0.
If they ceded their Consitutional Authority for previous Presidents that’s error. They can get it back without a Sham Meritless Impeachment. How war mongers & drone killers maintain it & now the want it back from a peace lover.
Trump claims it’s his Lunar NewYear, but we don’t want to insult The Rat.
Hows it gotten worse? Just because more people are now aware? The establishment parties (Congressmen and Senators) use the executive branch to legislate, simply so they don't have to do their job.
So sad and disgraceful
If we only had a good man in the presidency, but we don’t.
Translation: It’s bad because orange man.
We need a unifier in chief. I believe that person to be BernieSanders. ILikeBernie
Weak and corrupt Congress. Most of them been in office for far too long.
Where were you during Obama years?
Where was this during DACA JCPOA drone strikes and Libya?
Blackmail and corruption will do that.
The GOP Congress.
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