I believe that at this moment drumpf is having Barr devise a way that he can control the states.

[mfcorey1]

This will be worth watching to see what his favorite "lapdog" creates.

[DUgosh]

1. With a sharpie

On a white board

[jmg257]

2. The Emergency Powers Act gives him a huge range of power...

but nothing specific to things being considered re: "opening the economy" that I see, but he CAN use the powers in a way that could threaten to do all kinds of nasty shit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-emergency-powers-and-their-use

[still_one]

5. If push comes to shove by his draconian administration, this will go to the courts

One way or another he is going to own this, and the Democratic Supreme Court victory in Wisconsin is an indictor of the consequences

What is happening in Sioux Falls South Dakota with the meat processing plant is a bell weather what happens without testing, and reopening things without testing

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I've been thinking the same.

[HAB911]

4. The shit will hit the fan

when and if he orders the military to enforce some illegal police function. Will the military refuse to carry out an illegal order? Will it get that far?

[doc03]

6. We have been through this already. I kept hearing the "Constitution", the "Law"

"Impeachment" and "Congress"controls the purse strings. He has broken every law, the Constitution and violated every
rule of separation of powers and has won every time. The Republican Senate failed to even give him a trial. I heard he
had no powers over the SDNY investigating him, Barr has shut that down apparently. I heard the law says Congress
could look at his tax forms, nope the courts have shut that down so far. What makes anyone think he can't order the states to
go back to work. The Republican Senate will back him, the AG will back him and the SCOTUS will back him. He also has 43%
of the American public brainwashed by the right wing media that will back him on anything.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. This is what scares me the most. At every opportunity to hold Trump accountable,

the Senate, the Court and the Justice Department have sided with Trump. The only hope we have is for Democrats to win big in November.

[doc03]

9. That's it unless we win the election this year he will not stop

he will have absolute power.

[sop]

7. Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse than a deadly pandemic and economic devastation,

Trump creates the specter of a looming constitutional crisis and potential armed conflict between the federal government and the states. What fresh hell will this despicable POS visit upon America next?

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Trump has a mobster's mentality.

I have no doubt that in his mind, his power over states is the fact that he can deny them things they want or need. He believes his power lies in extortion.

[2naSalit]

12. Exactly.

[Chainfire]

11. King Trump

and his corporate princes, Republican barons and crooked courts.

One of these days the peasants are going to revolt, and there will be hell to pay. Those folks need to be thinking about peeking through little windows.

[KLRIQ2]

13. Scratch That, Reverse It

Barr is the Wormtounge filling the vacum of leadership. He is the Machiavellian villain, driving an agenda above this powerless Presidency.

Barr understands that rules, laws and reason, the basis for our system, only hold back or restrain reasonable people.

Barr has understood the levers and machinations of the loopholes of mens moral chains, long before this patsy took office.

Barr understands the power of the word SO, when rules and laws have a built in assumption of a personal moral compass, when it matters to the constrained what people think, there is no way, often no enforcement or encroachment to those who learn the word SO.

The law says you can't do that, you are harming others, the response SO crumbles much of what we believe, because it relies on the better angels of men of intelligent power can only rise to the leadership of these United States, not these limbic driven, self preservationists, who have no concept of the greater good.

Barr is not a self preservationist, Barr understands the greater common good, and chooses to say, SO....

[mfcorey1]

14. Barr is one of the most sadistical characters to back a completely untethered

dictator. I still wonder why the Coalition of Attorney Generals backed away from meeting about his actions.