Source: The Bulwark
by Patrick Eddington
“Two weeks into his second term as president, Donald Trump has done one salutary service for the nation: He’s obliterated the myth that there is anything politically or morally redeeming about concentrated presidential power. Trump isn’t acting entirely without precedent …. When, in the 1830s, the Supreme Court told Andrew Jackson he couldn’t forcibly relocate native peoples from Florida to the Oklahoma territory, he did it anyway and paid no price for it. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War despite lacking any constitutional authority to do so. Congress and federal courts let his actions slide. … there is no shortage of comparable examples from twenty-first-century presidents, including especially the actions taken by George W. Bush during the intelligence operations and wars that followed the September 11 attacks.” (02/03/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/illegal-actions-missing-consequences-trump-second-term-executive-power