Friday, June 19, 2020

The Supreme Court rules that Obama was wrong but that he still is a King

The Supreme Court just said that Trump can't overturn an executive order issued by Obama with an executive order of his own.

That means that Obama is king since his edicts must stand irrespective of how the people vote.

This essentially destroys American democracy.

We the people elected Trump who said he'd get rid of DACA.

But the Supreme Court says that Trump isn't a king like Obama was so that what Obama did with his pen Trump can't undo with his pen.

In doing so the Supreme Court declared that Obama was wrong when he said:

Responding in October 2010 to demands that he implement immigration reforms unilaterally, Obama declared, "I am not king. I can't do these things just by myself." In March 2011, he said that with "respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case." In May 2011, he acknowledged that he couldn't "just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law myself. ... That's not how a democracy works."

If we the people wanted DACA we could have voted in a Congress that would pass it. But we didn't.

Instead Obama, in 2012, did what he had previously said was an unconstitutional usurpation of Congressional power and decided that he would simply not enforce a law he didn't like.

That makes him a king not a president.  Presidents report to the people and follow the constraints of the Constitution. Kings do what they please.

Because the Supreme Court didn't address the intrinsic unconstitutionality of DACA they said that Obama was wrong; it wasn't unconstitutional.

Because the Supreme Court said that what Obama created with a pen couldn't be undone with his successors pen says that elections are meaningless.  We the people rejected DACA but the President we voted for can't undo what Obama did thereby effectively neutering the whole concept of democracy.

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