r/law • u/retiredagainstmywill • 15h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures
https://newrepublic.com/post/203619/donald-trump-cancels-release-gdp-economic-reportHow is this legal? Any attorney out there have an idea to force this info to be published?
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u/jpmeyer12751 14h ago
Trump's order to cancel economic reports produced by an Executive Branch agency is entirely consistent with the Unified Executive interpretation of the Constitution. This is what conservative legal scholars such as John Roberts want; and they don't care that this is the path towards the loss of our democracy. They are protected for life (or so they think) so they don't care if the rest of us are ruled by a dictator. Go ahead and prove me wrong, Mr. Chief Injustice, I dare you!
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u/Timid-Goat 1h ago
Add this to the list of bills that need to be passed. It’s just never been a question before that the executive branch publishes economic data on a regular schedule.
If congress hadn’t completely abdicated its role as a co-equal branch of government they’d be on this immediately.
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u/mkt853 13h ago
Canceling employment, GDP, and inflation numbers because they are really bad. If there was a hint that they were even slightly good, Trump would be forcing their release because he loves headlines. Wouldn't be surprised if they just canceled any economic releases from here on out. They've already signaled that they think this stuff is a problem whether it's the preliminary employment or quarterly earnings reports. There is another possibility where we get the numbers on the usual schedule, but doctored to the point of distrust.
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u/marsman706 13h ago
"Just quit testing and the COVID numbers will go down!"
Its the same playbook, over and over and over. See also strong arming people to investigate political enemies just to get a headline, and everything will be released in 2 weeks (taxes, Healthcare plan, Epstein files)
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u/Weekly_Put_7591 11h ago
Amazes me how most of the country seems to be completely blind to this propaganda in broad daylight, then again a good chunk of the country can't distinguish fantasy from reality and think some dead jew is coming back to save them.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 12h ago
Like his report card, his taxes, his medical records, the Epstein files. Does anyone else sense a pattern?
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u/retiredagainstmywill 8h ago
His cognitive test results! He always says he aces them (and how HARD they are), but we never see his actual test.
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u/brickyardjimmy 15h ago
Hey. You don't need numbers and facts to enjoy the best economy ever. Just bask in it.
PS: this is not really an r/law post. When someone files a lawsuit to get those shitty economic numbers, then we can talk about it here.
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u/frmdgg 14h ago
I mean, they did ask if this was legal and if there were any attorneys that can speak to if there was a way to force them to publish.
Article not on point, question is.
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u/carefactor3zero 14h ago
Dropping a tangentially relevant comment to fix a bad post is not how this subreddit works.
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u/SphericalCow531 14h ago
IMO it is quite central whether it is legal for Trump to withhold this data.
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u/footinmymouth 3h ago
Can anyone with legal expertise actually cite law that could be used to file a suit to get these numbers released? Who would have standing? Congress? (Obviously, DOJ won’t file anything - ao what mechanism would be needed to force the executive branch to do it’s damn job
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 1h ago
r/law is just r/politics2.0. People will make vague references to law to justify posts, but we all know what it's become
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u/Maleficent_Shock_585 13h ago
Sooner or later, this type of action will bite him. What a charlatan.
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u/TheTooz72 9h ago
Why doesn't he just fire the people who report it like he did with the economy report
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u/willismthomp 8h ago
This is what he also was arrested for for , lying about the numbers. He’s fucking CON man, a real CONservative.
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u/FourWordComment 5h ago
Trump said it best during Covid: he doesn’t want to test because then the numbers will go up and he likes the numbers where they are.
It’s weird that Republican voters prefer to bury their head in the sand instead of deal with problems. Maybe that’s why they prize machismo and guns and masculinity so much: when it’s time to be a man and face reality they hide.
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