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Justice Department Tells Judge That Courts Are Powerless Over Trump
by
NoAprilFool
Community
(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Friday, Nov. 01, 2019
Friday, Nov. 01, 2019
at
7:02:00am PDT
Trump's Hate Salute
A lawyer from Trump's Justice Department just told a federal court that it has no jurisdiction to enforce a House subpoena issued to a former Trump staffer who failed to show up to testify. The judge challenged this claim, stating: “I had understood the whole system as such that that is precisely when the court should be called upon.” In response, the Justice Department stuck to its argument. Speaking so rapidly that the court reporter couldn't keep up,
the Justice Department lawyer asserted that there were NO circumstances under which the judicial branch could EVER intervene in a dispute between the legislative and executive branches. In other words, the Justice Department claims that Trump can defy Congress at will and nobody can do anything about it.
The story is
here
. Disturbingly, this Justice Department argument appears against the larger backdrop of a case just accepted by the Supreme Court that seeks to overturn a landmark 1935 decision that placed
limits
on Presidential power. Welcome to America’s first (and hopefully last) Imperial Presidency.