You are conflating. The court challenge would not be to claim that POTUS committed a criminal act. The court challenge would be to invalidate any laws rules or regulations put forth by someone not legally appointed.
The activities of department heads/cabinet members would only be invalid, if their appointment was invalid. So the court squares off against a POTUS who did the appointing, but cannot be criminally charged, and cannot be impeached.
Steve
How is that in any way relevant? When Obama lost 9-0 to Scotus, it didnât mean he committed a crime, it just meant that he did not follow the law.
This would be no different.
We are dealing with a new paradigm now. Old standards of behavior are gone.
Steve
That is not true at all.
Official actions of the job can not be prosecuted.
Non official actions that are criminal can be fully prosecuted. That is easy to understand unless you want to be cynical.
No matter how cynical all of us are there is the opposite in the system as well. It is not a binary choice to have see the good in this country. It is not an either/or.
Many of TFGâs actions will be illegal. He will be prosecuted for those actions. After 2026 there will probably be a 3rd impeachment.
Appointing cabinet members and department heads are âofficial actsâ, thus cannot be prosecuted.
Steve
??!?!?
No one is talking about prosecuting him!
Challenging an act of the Executive Branch doesnât mean you are trying to charge the POTUS with a crime.
Again, you are conflating.
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Federal prosecution for trying to overthrow the government is being dropped. Who would prosecute TFG in the future? Gaetz?
Steve
Admins are constantly challenged in the courts. That is the entire exercise.
What if my dog was kidnapped? Should I pay the ransom?
Let Sppankee eat your dog.
Representatives have no vote. These are Senate confirmations ⌠if they donât maneuver around that.
The ethics committee will not release the report, after all they are not called the Truth committee.
Big Tech wants Gaetz & Khan gone.
In March of 2021, the committee convened for a marathon session to debate six different bills on antitrust and big tech. The markup was exhausting, starting on Wednesday afternoon and going into Thursday. It was the culmination of years of effort, investigations going through millions of documents, hearings with various big tech CEOs, depositions, and so forth. The effort split the parties, though in general Democrats were more supportive of antitrust, and Republicans were more against it. Yet there were notable dissidents on both sides. The pro-monopoly faction was led by Republican Jim Jordan and Democrat Zoe Lofgren. They faced off against Democrat David Cicilline and Republicans Ken Buck and Matt Gaetz, who were foes of big tech. Gaetz, in other words, was part of a minority of Republicans opposing corporate power.
At one point during the markup, at 3am or so, Cicilline allowed an amendment that punched a loophole in one of the bills. The amendment would have let big tech firms purchase companies for less than $50 million in value without much scrutiny. It wasnât a big deal; everyone was exhausted and wanted to just move along. But at that moment, Gaetz chimed in and said he opposed it. He didnât win. But he was the only member in either party to say he wanted no loopholes, no matter how small, for big tech
Gaetz said heâd fight for every inch, even if he would get no credit, even if everyone was tired, and even if he was going to lose, and in losing, upset several corporations worth a trillion dollars apiece.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/14/trumps-ag-pick-matt-gaetz-could-be-bad-news-big-tech/
Trumpâs Gaetz pick could be bad news for Big Tech
He is arguably the most outspoken GOP supporter of antitrust legislation targeting the tech giants in the House.
And First Buddy Musk just added Microsoft to his monopoly complaint against OpenAI.
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Yup, there is, apparently, still a lower bound.
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Booyah! Any bets on the next pick? My moneyâs on Ken Paxton.
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Mike Lindell and Hulk Hogan are probably both available.
Pete
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Personally, I donât get it. So, heâs âcontroversial.â So, heâs alleged to have committed sex crimes. None of this is unusual under the circumstances. Why all of a sudden, is this a problem?
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