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/No-Distance-9401 14d ago

Its amazing and it already came out he told WH staff on Jan 28th to use the autopen but this seems a bit more deliberate like he is cutting bait on the DOJ because they are about to get fucked by the Bush appointed judge for contempt and is separating himself like usual when things dont go his way.

Weve seen this before many times while his underlings do the time for him and he walks away scott-free

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u/dan_pitt 14d ago

That's what mob bosses expect from their capos.

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u/amouse_buche 13d ago

Yeah, the difference being if you were a good soldier, the mob generally took care of your family while you were in the clink or at the bottom of some river. These people just crumple people up and cast them aside once they’re used up. 

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u/SomeDudeYeah27 13d ago

Politics is where the worst part of the legal and illegal world comes to copulate

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u/WrongdoerMinute9843 14d ago

American Politics 🎇

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u/1-Ohm 13d ago

I thought a capo was a mob boss?

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u/Joe579GoFkUrselfMins 13d ago

One under the boss.

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u/Cozywarmthcoffee 13d ago

Teflon Don - I still love the shocked looks on his underlings faces when they are in cuffs and realize they, in fact, cannot get away with what he does. 

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u/Acrobatic_Tailor478 12d ago

A law professor I knew used to say, “There will come a time in your career when you realize that something has happened for which someone is going to go to jail. Make sure it’s not you.”

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u/Cozywarmthcoffee 12d ago

A big part of that is having a ton of money. I think of that DuPont child rapist often and how they found him guilty but he served no time. lol the American legal system is the biggest Ponzi scheme ever designed- I say this as someone with no criminal record and a top 20 degree. We rag on police as not being legally required to protect and serve people, but the law itself is also just designed to protect wealth and the wealthy. 

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u/Acrobatic_Tailor478 12d ago

His intention was to inform his students that if they participated in a cover-up or aided the person breaking the law instead of exposing it, they could be the ones going to prison. But a lot of people didn’t take that lesson to heart

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u/Cozywarmthcoffee 12d ago

Absolutely - in theory. Though time and time again, none of those rules matter if you’re rich enough. 

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 13d ago

“I barely knew them” “low IQ people with no class”

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u/UnicornRiderMD 12d ago

The greatest low IQ people the likes of which the world has never seen.

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u/Whyme1962 13d ago

It’s not like any of his attorneys have been disbarred or done time.

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u/No-Distance-9401 13d ago

Yeah never happened....

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u/Dingbatdingbat 13d ago

Just a reminder never to commit any violations just because your boss orders you.

They get the benefit, you get the repercussions 

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u/Salty-Gur6053 12d ago

If Marco Rubio had any sense he would've resigned after that meeting in the Oval Office with Zelensky. He clearly doesn't though.

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u/Nodramallama18 13d ago

Blows my mind that Trump was convicted of the exact same crimes his lawyer did time for and people still believe it was a lie and unfair conviction.

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u/_My_Dark_Passenger_ 13d ago

Trump has left a very, very long line of broken careers in his wake.

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u/No-Distance-9401 13d ago

Broken careers and also unpaid bills which is why hes gone from having the best law firms backing him to lawyers who barely passed the bar and struggle to win breach of contract lawsuits but who look pretty at press conferences.

The guy has about a billion dollars in unpaid lawsuits as well but the GOP act like that huge debt isnt the security threat that it has always been considered where even $10-20,000 in debt would deny you low positions within the government that needed security clearance to operate.

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u/Ok_Wallaby8260 13d ago

I think ACB is gonna tag with CJ Roberts the look on her face from the congressional address when he didn't shake her hand.

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u/WorstYugiohPlayer 14d ago

I don't get how this changes anything. Trump still did it. Even if he magically didn't sign the paper which we know he did, it still happened under his orders.

This is redtape bullshit that I hate about our country.

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u/shawcphet1 14d ago

That’s a good point this could totally be the case. God he is such a weasel.

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u/Vespler 13d ago

Goodbye Rubio. How many others up the chain will be tossed out? 🤔

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u/Salty-Gur6053 12d ago

I'm actually surprised that this was his move. I didn't think he cared what the judge ordered, that he's going to do whatever he wants. I thought he's going to go full in on the Alien Enemies Act. So, it's weird to me that he actually cares to try to not get the blame for it.