“The GOA got it exactly backwards. Here’s what they said. The law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities to those Congress has enacted into law. It’s exactly the opposite. The Constitution does not allow Congress to substitute its own priorities....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2020
Who is on Trump's impeachment defense team.
....for the foreign policies of the President.” @AlanDersh Alan Dershowitz @seanhannity @FoxNews They do what the House asks. The Swamp!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2020
Art. I, sec. 8, of the U.S. Constitution:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
Art. II, sec. 2, of the U.S Constitution:
[The President] shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;These are the specific references in the Constitution to U.S. foreign policy and who has power to determine it. I'm not sure where in there it gives the President the authority to do as he pleases, and removes from Congress, in which, according to Art. I, sec. 1, "all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested," authority over foreign policy.
Full statement from a spokesman for Trump legal team pic.twitter.com/iYzqZE5kol— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 17, 2020
Dershowitz' constitutional arguments are a joke, and will serve to do nothing more than provide a fig leaf behind which GOP Senators can cower.
Just because the fix is in, doesn't mean we can't point out the emperor is stark naked. The difference is, in the fable the emperor remained emperor; and nobody elected Trump emperor.
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