Trump's constitutionally illiterate Cabinet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially for those who have a duty to uphold and enforce it. What is the American public to think when Donald Trump’s Cabinet members, people in the line of presidential succession, are ignorant of the United States Constitution?

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the world that Congress could give President Trump a “line-item veto” for the budget so he could eliminate budget items individually, a power that the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a year after Congress attempted to implement such a power for President Bill Clinton.

The issue came up when President Trump signed the 2018 Omnibus Budget Bill, and then that complained he never wanted to sign a similar bill. He said:

"To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, I'm calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all government spending bills."

Mnuchin later said on Fox News Sunday, “I think they should give the president a line-item veto," to which the show's host, Chris Wallace, noted that line-item veto power has "been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court."

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Replied Mnuchin: "Congress could pass a rule, OK, that allows them to do it."

The Treasury secretary is fifth in line for the presidency, so Mnuchin's ignorance of the Constitution regarding presidential veto use is astounding. Yale graduates like Mnuchin would have read the Constitution, one thinks.

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http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/381431-trumps-constitutionally-illiterate-cabinet

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I get a giggle out of anyone quoting the law or the constitution NOW

Now?

No, you see it might be too fucking late.

Because of actions I cant go into, we have created a situation where our Constitution and laws are almost meaningless or they surely will be in a few years when the filth are occupying the courts.

AT BEST we lose ALL rights for minorities for 20 years, AT BEST.