Doesn't seem the President can do much of anything unilaterally these days.
People like to say Trump should ignore the Supreme Court, etc. Usually quoting Jackson as they say it. But what they fail to see is that the Presidency is not what it was then. Jackson could fire the entire Executive branch under the spoils system.
Trump can fire maybe 0.0001% of it. The bureaucracy doesn't like elected positions of great power that must change every 8 years. They made sure they were untouchable.
So these days, if Trump said 'ignore the court', the decision would pass down to whatever career bureaucrat got it, and they'd make sure it was a commie, and they'd say no, because of the court. And there wouldn't be shit to do about it.
Can the President unilaterally take the U.S. out of the UN? Or does he need approval from Congress and or the Senate? Asking for myself.
Doesn't seem the President can do much of anything unilaterally these days.
People like to say Trump should ignore the Supreme Court, etc. Usually quoting Jackson as they say it. But what they fail to see is that the Presidency is not what it was then. Jackson could fire the entire Executive branch under the spoils system.
Trump can fire maybe 0.0001% of it. The bureaucracy doesn't like elected positions of great power that must change every 8 years. They made sure they were untouchable.
So these days, if Trump said 'ignore the court', the decision would pass down to whatever career bureaucrat got it, and they'd make sure it was a commie, and they'd say no, because of the court. And there wouldn't be shit to do about it.