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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 24

    "Stated differently, what if the president stopped tweeting and instead issued clear legal determinations that he specifically said are binding on the executive branch, including U.S. attorney’s offices and the Special Counsel’s Office?"https://www.lawfareblog.com/donald-trump-twitter-and-presidential-power-interpret-law-executive-branch …

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      1. Sally Duval‏ @SallyDuval Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        It’s an interesting “what if?”, but seems bloody unlikely. As to the legal power of a tweet, I would argue that tweets have no official force of law primarily because nobody can be sure if POTUS wrote it himself. It could be anybody.

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      1. Michael Steiner‏ @BierQuaffer Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Rule of law would no longer exist if this is a possibility.

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      1. SherylHohman‏ @SherylHohman Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Well then we become a form of dictatorship - that Ends badly Trump prob wants it tho.. Testing powers Clearly Not the intent of the founding fathers The branches are to balance power, not concentrate it Precedent of 200 years should mean something PLEASE don't let this happen!

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      1. &y‏ @AndyWitney Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Please, please, please be too lazy and stupid to figure this out, Donald Trump.

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      1. Alys Corduroy‏ @AlysCorduroy Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        If he does, and the intent is corrupt.... will that wake up the GOP Congress? (I'm getting sick thinking about the likely answer)

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      1. TazeMae‏ @TazeMae17 Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        That's not how the mob does things. They take the law into their own hands.

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      1. Andy‏ @murnut Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Chilling...

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      1. leveller‏ @lib_ertarian_ Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        wherein lawfare forgets that Trump is the less effective evil, that he is essentially a blowhard NYer

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      1. int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...))ACK.n34|&m4c(*.NAK.‏ @Auld_Mac Aug 24
        Replying to @emptywheel

        The notion that Trump has any interest in governance and the ways and methods required to do so is, well, amusing speculation in a science fiction sense but just absurd in the real universe in which we currently reside.

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