Trump’s ‘Catch-Me-If-You-Can’ Approach to the Law
The administration has used legal loopholes to push projects and policies, while courts and Congress have struggled to stop them.
- President Donald Trump continues a "Catch-Me-If-You-Can" approach to governance, ignoring legal challenges to projects like the East Wing ballroom construction.
- This pattern defines the administration's second term, where the president acts unilaterally while Congress remains passive, bypassing established laws governing agency creation and funding.
- Trump's administration has challenged the 60-day limit for military hostilities in Iran and exploited commemorative coin laws to circumvent rules against living presidents on currency.
- Courts struggle to keep pace with these actions, often preferring to let the administration proceed while disputes are sorted, a trend Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recently criticized.
- Reversing these systemic changes poses significant challenges for future administrations regarding research funding and institutional norms; once something is gone, it's gone.
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Trump’s ‘Catch-Me-If-You-Can’ Approach to the Law
"A plain reading of the law about presidents on coins says the face of a living president should not be on currency. And yet President Donald Trump’s is, after his Treasury Department exploited a different law related to commemorative coins," CNN reports."The law says a president must not commit t
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN: A basic reading of the law regarding the presence of presidents on currency indicates that the face of a sitting president should not appear on circulating money. However, President Donald Trump's does appear, after his Treasury Department used...
Analysis: Trump’s ‘Catch-Me-If-You-Can’ presidency keeps finding ways around the law
A plain reading of the law about presidents on coins says the face of a living president should not be on currency. And yet President Donald Trump’s is, after his Treasury Department exploited a different law related to commemorative coins.
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily have to prove that the law allows him to do what he does. Sometimes it's enough to do that before the courts, Congress or other institutions can stop him. In fact, in the second term, Trump has developed a model of governance in which the administration constantly tests the limits of the law, exploits legal loopholes ... The post Presidency "Take me if you can appear first on spotmedia.ro.
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