Posted on 04/14/2020 4:15:36 AM PDT by sevinufnine
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has rebuked President Trump's claims that he has blanket authority to order a reopening of the country. In a heated press conference inside the White House on Monday evening, Trump asserted that his office holds 'absolute power' over the shutdowns But Cuomo said later Monday that the last time he checked the US had 'a constitution...not a king'. The governor went on to accuse Trump of an 'abrogation of the Constitution', before threatening the president with a lawsuit should he put New Yorkers at risk. 'The close down was left to the governors to do individually state by state. Now the reopen should be total authority? That makes no sense,' Cuomo said. In a heated press briefing, Trump launched a furious attack on the media and screened a White House-produced video praising his response to the virus.
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I am not holding anything against anybody these days.
But you did have me scratching my head trying to link the two posts. :)
“Just because the POTUS gave states discretionary authority to declare appropriate levels of emergency, does not mean that he does not hold authority to change that delegation.”
We’re sailing into unchartered waters. The courts have ruled that state legislatures, mayors, Indian tribes and sheriffs, etc. are sovereigns.
I imagine it will take a decade or more for the courts and legislatures to sort out who or what is sovereign over whom or what.
Yes, he is.
Play a stupid game. Win a stupid prize.
So, Mr. Cuomo says we have a Constitution?
This same guy who said he would close down churches and synagogues permanently?
NJ has a similar order in place. Now a number of hospitals are creating their own DNR and No CPR policies on Covid positive or SUSPECTED positive patients. This is not to prioritize patients over other patients, but to prioritize healthcare workers above patients. Guess we won’t need those ventilators after all.
Schrodinger wept...
I suspect she would laugh and party. The Elites seem to prefer de-population.
I am sure Trump would not have even gone there were he not convinced that he’s going to have to apply the spurs to a few of the Democrat buttheads.
I too bristled when I heard POTUS repeated use those words.
He should have explained what he meant. That is, under the emergency orders in effect, he does, indeed, have dictator powers. Frankly, the statement that he, or any president, has authority over the governors scares the hell out of me.
Meat packing plants:
- Long shifts working elbow to elbow
- Lots of illegals
- Generally unsanitary conditions to begin with
Interstate commerce clause + Defense Production Act = Trump is right.
Cuomo is taking the bait, and he doesn’t even realize it.
Democrats and the media (I repeat myself), fail to once again see how Trump is playing 4D chess here....
Progtard DildoCrats are blithering idiots, but I repeat myself.
After 70+ years of uninterrupted DildoCrat corruption and incompetence, they have bankrupted their cities of money, leadership, and morality.
The "productivity" of American cities is an accounting fiction based on the wide latitude of where you can realize revenue. No America city can feed itself, provide its own electrical power, or dispose of its garbage. Few can produce their own water or dispose of their sewage.
Trump has the DildoCrat leaders boxed in. At this point, they will not attempt to reopen prematurely, and because of their festering stupidity, their cities will be the last areas ready to reopen.
The red/blue map of how counties voted in the 2016 Presidential Election will be illustrative.
Red counties will soon be ready to reopen and productivity will soar. Out of spite, and because DildoCrats grossly mis-manage densely populated areas creating high rates of infection, the blue counties will remain largely shuttered.
Unfortunately, it is too much to hope for that the slaves on the DildoCrat plantations will rise up and dispose of their elected leaders. Probably because the garbage dump is so far beyond the city limits.
Yesterday in democrat 1984 land: The President has to order a NATIONAL LOCKDOWN!!!
Today in democrat 1984 land: The President has no authority to order the states to comply with his orders!!
This is not a popular stand for Trump. If seen as delaying opening in areas with light or no cv, this is not going to be taken well by the millions suffering economically. Initially White House issued guidelines, governors set specifics. He needs to take a deep breath and rethink this stance.
Two words: interstate commerce. Sorry governors, that’s in the constitution.
That is the key point. Once the emergency declarations were made the power of the executive branch increases. The total extent of that power can be seen from early examples of the use of federal powers, such as Washington's actions during the Whiskey Rebellion. Lincoln's actions in the mid 1800s provide another example of the power of the executive branch versus that of the states.
Gov. Cuomo should think about Gov. Brown's experience in Georgia in 1864 and afterwards in order to understand the full scope of the power of the federal government.
He explained that the powers were those of the presidency, not him in particular, and that they were in the context of this emergency only.
Don't be fooled by Trump's mastery at trolling the media and the Democrats. He will almost certainly recommend re-opening first in areas with low COVID-19 infection rates, which are mostly deep red counties in rural America that are full of Trump voters.
Stupidly, Gov. Cuomo and his pals are saying that they will sue the government is President Trump orders them to open too soon. But realistically they will be the last states allowed to re-open. So Gov. Cuomo and his fellow Democrats have set themselves up to take the heat from their voters who will be sitting at home when the largely Republican rural areas are back to work.
By the time the epidemic subsides in the Democrat strongholds the rest of the country may well be back to normal. The challenge will be to keep the largely liberal population of the areas with significant infection separate from the rest of the country.
Positive analysis BUMP! I see that too unless 19 can be infecting red states with super spreader agents (WORST CASE SCENARIO THINKING).
Not at all surprising, these faux-king governors are not going to give up their expansive self-anointed new power without a fight. They’ve hadincredible power over their subjects for nearly a month now ... and ... well ... you know how addictive power is to a politician, especially a politician on the Democrat/Left whose sole purpose in life is to accumulate it.
“doesn’t need to wait for Congress to change laws, he has a pen and a phone”
Thanks for that reminder/quote. Face, WORDS, deeds of a psychopath. The most EVIL administration in the history of this fabulous republic. BY FAR.
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