CONGRESS are the ones who wrote the law giving/ceding this power to the President.  Even the founders were wise enough to NOT include such a power under Article II.  The closest thing we have to this IN the U.S. Constitution is the power to Suspend Habeas Corpus under VERY specific conditions and even that was granted to CONGRESS, not to one person: the President.

This reminds me of of a scene in I, Claudius, when Claudius is "interviewing" Agrippinilla (Agrippina, the Younger), his own niece, to be his new wife - and she warns him that if he "gives her power... she WILL use it!"  Of course, Claudius' plan here is precisely for the wicked Agrippinilla to use such power to hasten the decay of the Empire.  

Our Congress may not have intended for Presidents to use this grant of power this way, but they should have studied the history of what happens when Parliaments don't jealously guard their powers nonetheless!

Marc

This is the problem with Trump. He has reduced the office of the American President to an embarrassment, met with silence. No wonder China loves Trump. It just bolsters their argument that Government should be controlled by people with experience and have been raised to be leaders. 

So really, on this as so many issues, the problem is that we have a court that legislates and which has no check on its power.

What purpose does posting this YouTube video serve?  It's one guy's opinion and not incontrovertible fact.  Not a minute in when he says "Democrats don't care about lawlessness" I knew what I was in for: yet another bullshit claim that Dems don't care about crime and would rather protect the criminal rather than the victim. 

FANTASTIC!

But what does it add to the conversation that you haven't already espoused a number of times across pages of discussion?

Nothing.  Zero.  Nada.  

Thanks but no thanks.

Understood.  But were I Congress, I never would have knocked down that first domino to begin with - I stand by my comment that Congress was not "jealously" guarding its powers and prerogatives by passing such legislation in the first place.  

Marc

Couldn't believe I'd ever actually agree with her, but it has finally happened!