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Just seems like a huge waste of time for everyone involved. The Trump admin lost a number of legal challenges last time around. No one is going to trust that th

Just seems like a huge waste of time for everyone involved. The Trump admin lost a number of legal challenges last time around. No one is going to trust that the deregulation will stick. If they have control of the house and senate, they should just pass legislation.

9283409232 2y ago
Great so you understand the point. The point is to flood the courts and overwhelm the media. Flooding the zone as Steve Bannon calls it.
- gamblor956 2y ago
  Flooding the courts just means that the change they're trying to effectuate remains tied up in courts long after the administration is no longer in office.
  - 9283409232 2y ago
    It doesn't matter what the courts say when the damage is not fixable.
defrost 2y ago
Some of the legislation actually being passed is disturbing in Byzantine non obvious ways. Trump has a lot of leeway to declare emergency rulings and to have those enforced in the short term. Such powers come with a short leash that require appeals to be addressed in a short time frame. That mechanism was upended two days ago when US Republicians effectively "stopped time" .. Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025. ~ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/211/text?s=2&r=3&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22shall+not+constitute+a+calendar+day%5C%22%22%7D https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio... "Each day [..] shall not constitute a calendar day" This does not appear (on my admittedly brief search) to be something routine in US resolutions. There's some further commentary here: The Constitution gives to Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allows the president to impose tariffs if he declares a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, which Trump did on February 1. That same law allows Congress to end such a declaration of emergency, but if such a termination is introduced—as Democrats have recently done—it has to be taken up in a matter of days. But this would force Republicans to go on record as either supporting or opposing the unpopular economic ideology Trump and Musk are imposing. So Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration. ~ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025

9283409232 2y ago

Great so you understand the point. The point is to flood the courts and overwhelm the media. Flooding the zone as Steve Bannon calls it.

gamblor956 2y ago
Flooding the courts just means that the change they're trying to effectuate remains tied up in courts long after the administration is no longer in office.
- 9283409232 2y ago
  It doesn't matter what the courts say when the damage is not fixable.

defrost 2y ago

Some of the legislation actually being passed is disturbing in Byzantine non obvious ways. Trump has a lot of leeway to declare emergency rulings and to have those enforced in the short term. Such powers come with a short leash that require appeals to be addressed in a short time frame. That mechanism was upended two days ago when US Republicians effectively "stopped time" .. Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025. ~ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/211/text?s=2&r=3&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22shall+not+constitute+a+calendar+day%5C%22%22%7D https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio... "Each day [..] shall not constitute a calendar day" This does not appear (on my admittedly brief search) to be something routine in US resolutions. There's some further commentary here: The Constitution gives to Congress, not the president, the power to impose tariffs. But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allows the president to impose tariffs if he declares a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, which Trump did on February 1. That same law allows Congress to end such a declaration of emergency, but if such a termination is introduced—as Democrats have recently done—it has to be taken up in a matter of days. But this would force Republicans to go on record as either supporting or opposing the unpopular economic ideology Trump and Musk are imposing. So Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration. ~ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025