repoman
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The guy has pissed off everyone, this may be the best chance ever for congress and the courts to limit Presidential powers back to what they were 50 or 100 years ago.
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Silver Lining to a Trumpidency... limiting executive power?
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We would have to elect the Congress we had 50 or 100 years ago.
Elixir
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Heh - after 4 years of a Trumpidency, I doubt that would be a problem.
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Presidential power can be curtailed with respect to appointing judges. In the UK an independent Judicial Committee selects the judges. The list is given to the Lord Chancellor. If he refuses (rare) than he has to specify clearly his reasons which must be valid. This seems to work. There are no 'Tory' or 'Labour' judges.
laughing dog
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The only silver lining to a Trumpidency is that all the hockey players in hell will start up a league.
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Yes you tend to get idiot judges that way.
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Umm, like most things, no.
Ya, that won't happen. The limits to the executive power would only happen if the legislative branch has the balls to stand up to him. There's no rational course of events where Trump wins the Presidency and the Dems win control of the House or Senate, so it would be the GOP needing to stand up to him and they have shown a complete inability to be anything but ball-licking bitches as far as Trump is concerned, so they won't do anything to limit his power.
What if he comes out as a liberal after he's elected?
Elixir
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As long as he keeps pushing lower taxes for zillionaires, they'll put up with whatever.