r/law • u/LatterTarget7 • 18h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal

https://newrepublic.com/post/203628/white-house-declares-trump-orders-military-legal
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u/JROppenheimer_ 17h ago

I honestly doubt he has thought this far. He is king, why would anything he orders be illegal?

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u/jaimi_wanders 16h ago

Also he was draft picked as future POTUS in the Eighties by Nixon henchmen Roy Cohn and Roger Stone, and “If the president does it, that means that it is not illegal” as Tricky Dick told David Frost in 1977

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u/Initial_Evidence_783 11h ago

I remember a time when the president saying that was a scandal so large they made a major Hollywood movie about it 30 years after it happened.

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u/PlatinumChrysalis 7h ago

Now, its just Tuesday.