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"hereby ordered" = "hereby ordered"
by thrill 7y ago
"hereby ordered" = "hereby ordered"
- jaredhansen 7y ago"hereby ordered" means exactly nothing without legal authority behind it. The President can't just "order" companies to randomly do things. I mean, he can, but they don't have to comply, and there's no legal penalty if they don't.
- mindthegap 7y agoIt still carries a lot of weight if the president says something like this. Legal or not. And since it doesn't seem to be legal it is actually worse that the head of a country uses this sort of language.
- Balgair 7y agoUnderstatment of the year? Yes, Donny Two-Scoops is indeed not using language correctly [0]. Watch the video there. It's really something. [0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/
- cronix 7y agoI was responding to the quote > Can the president (legally) order companies "home"? He ordered them to start looking if you want to be pedantic, which still does not "order companies home," as was stated.
- markbnj 7y ago> "hereby ordered" = "hereby ordered" Furthermore, doesn't "hereby" mean specifically "this thing that you are now reading/hearing/seeing is the instrument of the order?" In other words is he issuing an order via a tweet?
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoHe may think he is, yes. He's not issuing a legally valid order, and he's not issuing it by a legally valid medium. (At least, I'm pretty sure it's not, but IANAL.) In fact, if he thinks that Twitter is a legally valid medium and that anything he says is a legally valid order, that would explain a lot...