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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomething that was over-looked in Trump's signing of the John McCain Defense Bill...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22736897/president-trump-defense-bill-signing-statement-crimea-ukraine/<snip>
Of Course Trump Stapled Something Putin Would Love to the Defense Spending Bill
The other day, the president* signed the John S. McCain, Jr. National Defense Authorization Act, which was pretty much an abomination. However, as Savage outlines in The New York Times, when the lights went out, and while everyone was getting outraged at the fact that the president* failed to mention McCain's name, the signing-statement gremlin came out to play again, with some signifying results.
In a signing statement that the White House quietly issued after 9 p.m. on Monday about six hours after Mr. Trump signed the bill in a televised ceremony at Fort Drum in New York Mr. Trump deemed about 50 of its statutes to be unconstitutional intrusions on his presidential powers, meaning that the executive branch need not enforce or obey them as written.
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Among them was a ban on spending military funds on any activity that recognizes the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea, the Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow in 2014 in an incursion considered illegal by the United States. He said he would treat the provision and similar ones as consistent with the presidents exclusive constitutional authorities as commander in chief and as the sole representative of the nation in foreign affairs.
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Something that was over-looked in Trump's signing of the John McCain Defense Bill... (Original Post)
kentuck
Aug 2018
OP
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)1. He needs to be removed from office last year...
never should be in there.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)2. Trump Is Using Signing Statement
As a line item veto, something the Supreme Court has ruled is unconstitutional.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)3. Everything he has done so far
is unconstitutional. He needs to be pitchforked out of the country.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)4. He commits multiple crimes daily. Its a tsunami of vile.