Many people were dismayed that President Trump signed the funding bill this Friday, even though he also signed the Emergency Declaration before doing so.
They felt it contained too many hidden traps that would come back to bite him and tie his hands.
Ann Coulter has been one of the most vocal people who have turned against the President.
But I have to ask…..have you all learned nothing in the time we’ve been watching Trump?
Do you all think he suddenly lost a bunch of IQ points?
Do you think he suddenly lost his ability to negotiate a hard deal?
Do you think he suddenly got outplayed by someone like Nancy Pelosi?
COME ON FOLKS!
If the crowd is so fickle, it really scares me for our future.
President Trump scored a lot of big wins with what he did on Friday, most notably, getting another source of funding for the wall (don’t forget, he is getting wall funding from multiple different sources, including the emergency declaration, the amount in this budget is but a small piece).
But he also did something very cunning that almost no one is talking about.
Are you familiar with a “Signing Statement”?
Here’s a quick summary of what they are, from Georgetown Law:
When presidents sign bills into law, they sometimes issue written statements expressing their views on those bills. These written statements are known as “presidential signing statements.” Presidents often use signing statements to express their intention not to enforce parts of legislation that they consider to be unconstitutional, or otherwise provide an interpretation of the law as executive branch agencies will be directed to enforce it.
Since at least the Reagan era, scholars, jurists, and others have debated whether presidential signing statements should be considered as legislative history for purposes of interpreting federal statutes. In a recent example, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia disagreed with his fellow justices’ disregard of a signing statement related to the Detainee Treatment Act, Pub. L. No. 109-148, §§ 1005-1006, 119 Stat. 2736 (2005). Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006) (Scalia dissenting). In March 2009, President Obama issued a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies in which he opined “In appropriately limited circumstances, [presidential signing statements] represent an exercise of the President’s constitutional obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and they promote a healthy dialogue between the executive branch and the Congress.”
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