All posts tagged "Laws"

President Donald Trump has signed more than 300 executive orders since coming into office — and a New York Times reporter thinks he knows why.

According to opinion writer Carlos Lozada, Trump "favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking." After all, "Why bother assembling legislative coalitions when you can just write, 'By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered' and then tack on whatever you like?" he asked.

Lozada has read through every single Trump orders so far, and found that they laid bare "the assumptions, obsessions and contradictions of the man signing them." ...

Former President Donald Trump may struggle to follow the orders of Judge Tanya Chutkan as his trial for the 2020 election coup plot begins to take shape, said former FBI official and top drug enforcement chief Chuck Rosenberg on MSNBC Thursday evening.

This comes as Trump has fired off direct personal attacks against Chutkan and called for her recusal from the case, as well as special counsel Jack Smith.

"My question to you is, how difficult a position is Judge Chutkan in right now, in terms of balancing what seems to be flagrant abuses of the position of a defendant in any criminal case and Trump's legitimate right to talk about what may be a very potent political weapon going into a presidential contest?" the host asked....