What the hell, conservatives? You correctly support separation of powers. You correctly criticized power shifting to the executive as deviating from the Constitution. You correctly sued over Obama's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans immigration policy (and won). Speak up!
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This is a great test of which self-identified conservatives actually believe in conservative principles and which are just partisan loyalists. The executive branch must implement the law as written. Period.
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I concede there's some wiggle room when it comes to enforcement priorities. The executive has limited resources, and if those resources are not sufficient to enforce everything at once, POTUS must pick something to focus on. But that's not what's going on with Russia sanctions.
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The executive branch does not claim it lacks the resources to implement the legally mandated sanctions. It says it's not going to do it because the threat creates a deterrent, so implementing is unnecessary.
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Even if evidence showed threatening sanctions did everything implementing was supposed to do--and it doesn't--that's not what the law says
@AviWoolf,@bernybelvedere,@RadioFreeTom, anyone else, am I missing something? Or does this violate core constitutionalist principles? (END)Show this thread
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Is there anything we can do?
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Speak about it, publicly and privately. Contact reps. But mostly vote.
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Exactly. Zero reasons for Trump to do anything. Why on earth would he impose these sanctions? Our democracy is in trouble when he can utterly ignore 98-2 and 419-3 sanctions...
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He needs to enforce the damn law.
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Congress makes laws president doesn’t implement. How does that work?
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Liars lie, cheaters cheat. We have an administration of both, and a Congress peopled with many of same ilk, mainly R, but some D as well. When tax returns are made a requirement, & dark money is removed, we stand a chance of regaining our democracy. Till then, nothing surprises.
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Now we know for sure that Putin has complete control of Trump and the US government!!
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@CNNPolitics Congress passed sanctions with veto-proof majority in House & Senate but won't defend USA now?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I feel the same way. What the fu*ck is going on? This isn’t a well, we’ll ring our hands, oh my type of event. This is a clear constitutional crisis where the executive branch is refusing to implement a duly passed bill, signed into law.
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