On his first day back to the White House, Donald Trump signed 26 executive orders. In 2017 he only signed one at his presidential inauguration. Within the period from George Bush Padre, in 1989, President 47 is the one who has approved the most decrees on the day of the investiture. Executive orders embody the top of presidential power: a wrist movement and apply instantly. They are a mirage of absolute power with feet of mud. Although it seems that Trump has been deploying them with real aspirations to extend the presidential power beyond its limits.
The torrent of orders that seems to have taken half a country ahead in the first week of the Trump era is plagued with actions that overreach what a president can sign. The most flagrant case has been the temporary suspension of the decree that revoked American citizenship by right, which the judge considers “flagrantly unconstitutional.” But it is not the only one.
The statement of the national emergency on the border to send the army already raised a constitutional conflict the past mandate that was not clarified. The extension that the Republican has ordered about Tiktok “Technically cannot do it,” says Victoria NourSe, a law professor at Georgetown and one of Joe Biden’s main legal advisors when he was vice president. “This is a great experiment,” says Nourse in reference to Tiktok, since the prohibition is a law approved by Congress that Biden decided to leave its application in the hands of its successor.
“Trump is pushing the limits of the Executive Bran Teacher, who foresees a second administration “much worse than eight years.” Both for what I try to do and what you get.
Mark Peterson, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, believes that the Republican has dedicated himself to giving effective blows with the intention of offering Carnaza to his followers in his triumphal return. “The real problem for me is that we do not know if you are trying to be performative or if you really think you have this power,” says the teacher.
The massive pardon for the nearly 1,600 convicted of the assault on the Capitol, including the members of the extreme right -right group Proud Boys, is something that “it would have been absurd at any other time,” says Peterson. Even his vice president, JD Vance, said publicly before the investiture that pardons would deny the assailants who used violence. “But Trump has ignored it and forgive them all. This is not someone who is seriously thinking about the true meaning of the law and order, in the true meaning of the rights and responsibilities that the Constitution under oath as president of the United States. So Trump really believes that he doesn’t have to meet any of these things? Or is it simply his typical fanfareo?
The immunity of a king
Unlike eight years ago, Trump returns to power with a Republican party that has already become his party and backed by the total immunity recognized by the Supreme Court for presidential acts. “This is going to be emboldened much more to overreach his authority. Because that’s how he will read it [la inmunidad total]as another set of permits, when in reality it is not what he says. And I don’t think he stops in his intention to persecute Biden, or the people who were their enemies, ”says NourSe.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has already launched a new committee to investigate on January 6, 2021 with the intention of rewriting the history of the peat instigated by Trump that broke into the Capitol to prevent certification Of the electoral results of 2020. The law teacher not only worries this will to change the story, but how that new committee will be used to seek revenge: “In the first committee of the assault on the Capitol there were young women who They testified against him. And now they are going to be harassed and harassed. It is simply very sad that your resentment will contaminate the Republican Party. ”
One of the women to whom Nourse refers is Cassidy Hutchinson, assistant to Trump’s Cabinet Chief, Mark Meadows. Hutchinson revealed during his testimony as Trump and Meadows had already received notices on January 6, the possibility of violence during the day.
The control of the Republican Party, more than most adjusted in Congress, is another of the springs that Trump has to try to mock the powers of powers. “There are many republican figures that, in any other situation, would behave and make very different decisions. They would not be supporting, for example, Pete Hegseth as the new Secretary of Defense, ”says Peterson.
At the last minute of Friday night, and thanks to the rackling vote that Vance now has as president of the Senate – a cargo that comes with the vice presidency – the expressionist of the Fox accused of sexual aggression was ratified as the new head of the Pentagon. Although Peterson’s hope is in the new frictions that have been created between the Maga Bases and the emergence of technological billionaires, such as Elon Musk.
What the Professor of Political Science believes that the foundations for transforming the United States could lay into an ultraconservative country is the “great and beautiful law” that Trump has spoken on several occasions: “It is a provision that arises from the law of the law Budget and Empowerment Control of 1974, which allows a Bus Bus bill, that is, a comprehensive bill that covers tax and expenditure issues, and package everything to submit it to a majority vote, for or against. So many Republican congressmen could justify their favorable vote despite disagreeing with the details. ” This law could be key to deploying your agenda effectively or the principle of your problems.
Smoke and mirrors
“In these first days there is a lot of smoke and mirrors for political reasons. But almost nothing he said can happen overnight. It is politicizing the position in a way that does not respect existing laws, hoping to obtain any support from the Supreme Court. And the last time did not work half of the time – says Nourse. I think we should not be fooled and not panic now. Within a year, all this may not reach anywhere because many of the decrees probably the supreme tumbas for unconstitutional. ”
Peterson also coincides with the feeling that Trump “is trying to promote the image of a complete change in the government’s direction” and that you have to wait to see what really happens. “We are only in the first week and there are many reasons to be skeptical that this will advance in the way Donald Trump would like long term,” he warns.
Source: www.eldiario.es
