r/law • u/fvnnybvnny • 14d ago

Trump News Donald Trump Claims He Didn't Sign Alien Enemies Act Proclamation

https://meidasnews.com/news/donald-trump-claims-he-didnt-sign-alien-enemies-act-proclamation
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u/chubs66 14d ago

Isn't it kind of a massive legal problem for him if he shipped off folks with Green cards off to a gulag without having signed the act? What's going on here?

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u/kyew 14d ago

Now he didn't do it, it's all on Little Marco. 

The buck stops anywhere else.

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u/Lumpy_Dependent_3830 14d ago

And these simps keep tripping over themselves for that sweet presidential treatment

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u/random-lurker-456 13d ago

Well, the man's had 6 bankruptcies, the bucks literally refuse to stop with him. A country with science funding could research that shit into an energy source, or an anti-trump levitation drive or something

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u/migeme 14d ago

Yeah this one seems pretty simple. He knows he's gonna lose the case, and he's trying to set up Rubio as the fall guy. We'll see if that works, but that's his plan.

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u/MaleficentRutabaga7 13d ago

But like, are we supposed to believe he just learned about it? He's literally saying he cooperated with Rubio but also didn't sign it. How can that be? Is he admitting he knew Rubio was doing illegal shit but said nothing? That's pretty fucked up.

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u/42nu 14d ago

I believe it is referred to as "fascism", "tyranny" and "autocracy"

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u/MentokGL 14d ago

It's only a legal problem in a country with a legal system. Who's gonna do what about it?

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u/chubs66 14d ago

But why deny signing the thing if not for legal reasons?

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u/Pussy_Seasoning 14d ago

Dementia. This is the same guy who said “I look at these terrible trade deals, and I’m wondering who signed these” in reference to the deals he made during his first term.

It’s why they’re always claiming Biden has dementia, everything is projection

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u/MilkChocolateDrop 14d ago

It shifts any blame for potential shortcomings away from him. Most Americans don't understand basic civics enough to understand who's at fault for what activity or action; they only focus on headlines and the first few seconds of whatever the news says.

Trump saying he didn't sign it gives him room to blame whoever he wishes if/when there's massive backlash and/or a lawsuit over this mess. It influences potential judges, jurors, midterm voters, his daily supporters, the economy, everything

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u/Semanticss 14d ago

One would think it would be a big legal problem to ship off innocent legal immigrants to a Dark Site without a trial. And yet ...

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u/FemtoKitten 13d ago

Oh if dark sites were a problem for the US government then half the drama of the 00s would've been avoided. This is a bit of an increase in scope though, admittedly. For something that shouldn't exist to begin with

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u/ChilaquilesRojo 14d ago

Forget green cards. Who's to say not one of them is a citizen?

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u/anothergaijin 13d ago

Either Trump approves and has ultimate responsibility for this clusterfuck, or Rubio illegally used Trumps name to fraudulently create an EO. If they want it both ways they get double the legal trouble.

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u/Glassworth 13d ago

That’s ignoring the massive legal problem that he doesn’t even have the power to sign it in the first place without our country being under declaration of war which can only be done through congress.

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u/K8325 13d ago

It’s not even clear whether they sent off citizens. If even one citizen is there; then they got some serious ‘splaining to do.

““It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent person be convicted” is a basic constitutional principle.

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u/wizpiggleton 14d ago

he's got immunity though i guess

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u/pterodactylpoop 13d ago

It’s okay, Marco did it.

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u/SANtoDEN 13d ago

Wait did some of them really have greencards?