Thank You Heather for repeating multiple times that the rule of law is our guiding light for all these illegal acts i.e. they need to be adjudicated. The executive branch needs to recognize and acknowledge Congress' role. Call your Congress people and tell them to pay attention to what is really going on in government. Appointments can wait!
The courts are our only saving grace right now. I certainly hope they’re figuring out how to enforce the abeyance of their rulings and are willing to have arrested anyone UNDER trump that feels comfortable enough to follow his illegal orders to go against their rulings…the VP included!
Do my fellow Americans really not see, or choose to see, how absolutely psychotic Our Mad King (wannabe) Donald the 1st is? Really? "Gulf of America"? Canada 51st stare? Gaza vacated by force of its 1.8M legitimate residents and turned into a Trump seaside resort, maybe Mar-a-Lago Club Med? Radical destruction of multiple Congressionally approved and funded agencies and departments? Sending the military into the US to carry out a mission for the first time in our 246yr. history, probably as a warm-up for martial law? Destruction of the Offices of the Department of Education when our students are increasingly failing standardized tests? Packing the SCOTUS with "yes" men and women? Threatening our long established allies with tariffs and the average American with purposeful preventable inflation? REALLY? STOP AND THINK, before it's too late, if it's not already. Thank you, Heather, for your sincere and passionate truth telling! God help us! Have a blessed evening in a nation where tomorrow is nolonger promised to be free of a dictatorship.
If Trump, Musk, Vance, et al. begin to simply ignore court decisions, are there any consensus ideas on how to effectively deal with it? Is going into the streets the only option?
Most appropriately, Trump should be impeached again and this time convicted, but there is no reason to believe the GOP will do that. Since Vance will likely be complicit in defying the courts, he should be impeached as well. (Yet another President Johnson?)
"...he [the president] may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices..."
This proves that Trump has no power to control federal agencies or departments beyond appointing officials to run them, with congress' approval, because those agencies and departments operate under law, not the whim of the president.
Congress under control of the GOP has refused to do its constitutional duty, the GOP senate and house are aiding and abetting the coup that has been their goal since Reagan. To restore the constitution we must remove the Republicans from power. Nothing else will work.
Republicans voters, and the Republicans they voted into office to represent them, seem to be very happy that the Beastly King is shredding Congress and the Constitution, as well as the very idea of the rule of law, except for he that rules. The Republican Party and all those who voted for this delusional moron are all complicit, proving that it would be a miracle for our Constitutional Republic to make it to its 250th birthday. And did you notice when the Beastly One said he shouldn’t say how often he talks to Czar Putin? Get ready for a worldwide wave of terrorism launched by his plan for Gaza! And please, someone take away the nuclear toys? What do backyard bunkers cost these days?
I cling to your wise words, Heather. The courts need to stop these denizens at every turn. All of the law breakers should be arrested starting at the top! All of the nefarious things he has done against our democracy should be brought to the citizen's attention every day! The media is to blame for so much of our fate.
I remain confused as to what good these lawsuits will do since they just go to a court, take time, and are 100% being ignored by Trump and Musk. (I think it's good that they're happening, but they just feel like shuffling papers while the titanic sinks.)
Thank you Heather, I hope all elected representatives will honor their oath to uphold the constitution and law. It is frightening to see what they are doing!
Thank you Dr Richardson! I so appreciate you taking time to record your incredibly helpful and insightful Letters from an American. I'm an auditory learner but I also read a lot and take it in well that way, so never really thought one was an advantage over the other. What I'm finding is they're very complimentary- and together, my retention of the information is greater. For some in my circle, there's a strong preference for one or the other. Bottom line, the two approaches increase your ability reach more people thirsty for factual information and historical context to better understand what's unfolding today.
Thank You Heather for repeating multiple times that the rule of law is our guiding light for all these illegal acts i.e. they need to be adjudicated. The executive branch needs to recognize and acknowledge Congress' role. Call your Congress people and tell them to pay attention to what is really going on in government. Appointments can wait!
Thank you for your thorough reporting. It’s a beacon that gives me a bit of hope that we can continue our democracy.
The courts are our only saving grace right now. I certainly hope they’re figuring out how to enforce the abeyance of their rulings and are willing to have arrested anyone UNDER trump that feels comfortable enough to follow his illegal orders to go against their rulings…the VP included!
Do my fellow Americans really not see, or choose to see, how absolutely psychotic Our Mad King (wannabe) Donald the 1st is? Really? "Gulf of America"? Canada 51st stare? Gaza vacated by force of its 1.8M legitimate residents and turned into a Trump seaside resort, maybe Mar-a-Lago Club Med? Radical destruction of multiple Congressionally approved and funded agencies and departments? Sending the military into the US to carry out a mission for the first time in our 246yr. history, probably as a warm-up for martial law? Destruction of the Offices of the Department of Education when our students are increasingly failing standardized tests? Packing the SCOTUS with "yes" men and women? Threatening our long established allies with tariffs and the average American with purposeful preventable inflation? REALLY? STOP AND THINK, before it's too late, if it's not already. Thank you, Heather, for your sincere and passionate truth telling! God help us! Have a blessed evening in a nation where tomorrow is nolonger promised to be free of a dictatorship.
Call your Senators & Representatives whether they are D or R, but especially if they are R!
Heather,
If Trump, Musk, Vance, et al. begin to simply ignore court decisions, are there any consensus ideas on how to effectively deal with it? Is going into the streets the only option?
Most appropriately, Trump should be impeached again and this time convicted, but there is no reason to believe the GOP will do that. Since Vance will likely be complicit in defying the courts, he should be impeached as well. (Yet another President Johnson?)
Article II Section 2 states this (see https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text):
"...he [the president] may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices..."
This proves that Trump has no power to control federal agencies or departments beyond appointing officials to run them, with congress' approval, because those agencies and departments operate under law, not the whim of the president.
Congress under control of the GOP has refused to do its constitutional duty, the GOP senate and house are aiding and abetting the coup that has been their goal since Reagan. To restore the constitution we must remove the Republicans from power. Nothing else will work.
Republicans voters, and the Republicans they voted into office to represent them, seem to be very happy that the Beastly King is shredding Congress and the Constitution, as well as the very idea of the rule of law, except for he that rules. The Republican Party and all those who voted for this delusional moron are all complicit, proving that it would be a miracle for our Constitutional Republic to make it to its 250th birthday. And did you notice when the Beastly One said he shouldn’t say how often he talks to Czar Putin? Get ready for a worldwide wave of terrorism launched by his plan for Gaza! And please, someone take away the nuclear toys? What do backyard bunkers cost these days?
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I cling to your wise words, Heather. The courts need to stop these denizens at every turn. All of the law breakers should be arrested starting at the top! All of the nefarious things he has done against our democracy should be brought to the citizen's attention every day! The media is to blame for so much of our fate.
I remain confused as to what good these lawsuits will do since they just go to a court, take time, and are 100% being ignored by Trump and Musk. (I think it's good that they're happening, but they just feel like shuffling papers while the titanic sinks.)
Thank you Heather, I hope all elected representatives will honor their oath to uphold the constitution and law. It is frightening to see what they are doing!
Thank you Dr Richardson! I so appreciate you taking time to record your incredibly helpful and insightful Letters from an American. I'm an auditory learner but I also read a lot and take it in well that way, so never really thought one was an advantage over the other. What I'm finding is they're very complimentary- and together, my retention of the information is greater. For some in my circle, there's a strong preference for one or the other. Bottom line, the two approaches increase your ability reach more people thirsty for factual information and historical context to better understand what's unfolding today.