What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[HVC]

I dont get it, were reporters just stumbling around the Pentagon aimlessly before?

[grumbler]

I dont get it, were reporters just stumbling around the Pentagon aimlessly before?

No.  I saw a reporter maybe twice in the three years I worked there. They enter the building for interviews and meetings.  They don't hang out there waiting for something reportable to happen.

[The Minsky Moment]

Hegseth can revoke press access to reporters who ask anyone in the Defense Department for information — classified or otherwise — that he has not approved for release

I assume the objection is to this, a straightforward violation of the First Amendment. 

The good news is that we don't have to worry about $50 toilet paper at the Pentagon anymore; they use obsolete paper copies of the US Constitution for that now.

[Syt]

I assume the objection is to this, a straightforward violation of the First Amendment.

... but only if the Supreme Court says so.

[The Minsky Moment]

At this point, I don't think Supreme Court decisions can be taken as precedential.  No one thinks that the holdings the Court has been announcing over the past 6 months expanding executive power will be honored if the Democrats ever retake the White House.   

[Syt]

They will bend over backwards to figure out a random argument why all this doesn't apply to Democrat presidents.

[crazy canuck]

They will bend over backwards to figure out a random argument why all this doesn't apply to Democrat presidents.

"Trump is no longer President, therefore the case is clearly distinguishable"

[Tonitrus]

At this point, I don't think Supreme Court decisions can be taken as precedential.  No one thinks that the holdings the Court has been announcing over the past 6 months expanding executive power will be honored if the Democrats ever retake the White House. 

Let's make that at least 1.5 years (to encompass the immunity decision).

[Tonitrus]

But even then, one of the first practical acts* of a theoretical new Democratic administration (and lets also assume a Senate majority) will have to be to expand the membership of the USSC.

*maybe before/after having most of the current administration arrested for corruption/malfeasance/abuse of office.

[celedhring]

*maybe before/after having most of the current administration arrested for corruption/malfeasance/abuse of office.

I take it for granted Trump will issue a mass pardon, so one less thing to do.

[crazy canuck]

*maybe before/after having most of the current administration arrested for corruption/malfeasance/abuse of office.

I take it for granted Trump will issue a mass pardon, so one less thing to do.

Yeah, sadly I think that will become the new tradition.  General pardons on the way out for everyone involved.

FDR had trouble expanding the court to bring in all the legislative changes he wanted to make. I am not so sure the Democrats will be able to do it now.

[The Brain]

A lesson of the 1930s is that the military won't oppose dictatorship. And nothing in the US today suggests that they will.

[Tonitrus]

*maybe before/after having most of the current administration arrested for corruption/malfeasance/abuse of office.

I take it for granted Trump will issue a mass pardon, so one less thing to do.

Alas, a new administration might have to take from the Trump playbook...just do it anyway.

That is one of the sadder things about all of this madness...much of what the administration has done cannot be easily undone without using the same methods.

[Oexmelin]

I have seen nothing that really warrants the sort of smugness some Democrats are displaying re: "the next administration".

[Tonitrus]

I am not so sure the Democrats will be able to do it now.

Nor am I.  And even if successful, in 50-ish years, the USSC might outnumber the Senate.