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A complete bunch of individuals broke the legislation to assist Trump—and he needs extra

Editorial Board Published February 18, 2025
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President Donald Trump instructed on Saturday that his and his allies’ actions to “save” the nation give them authorized leeway to do something they need.

“He who saved his Country does not violate any law,” the president wrote on his Reality Social platform. (The phrase is attributed to French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte, although its origins aren’t clear.)

Trump’s assertion that he or anybody who furthers his right-wing agenda could possibly be above the legislation comes because the president has spurred a constitutional disaster mere weeks into his second time period. 

Trump hasn’t shied from this remark, nonetheless. At one level this previous weekend, in line with The New York Instances, he had pinned the assertion to the highest of his Reality Social feed, which means it might be seen by all that visited his profile. The official White Home account on X additionally reposted the message on Saturday night.

This doesn’t mark the primary time Trump and his allies have instructed that legal guidelines shouldn’t get in the best way of their far-right agenda. Vice President JD Vance stated on Feb. 9 that judges who’ve tried to dam Trump’s agenda “aren’t allowed” to manage the president’s “legitimate power.” In the meantime, the Trump administration faces dozens of lawsuits over a number of of its early and excessive strikes, corresponding to its tried freezing of trillions in federal spending.

Trump will undoubtedly proceed to check the bounds of his presidential energy. Bear in mind, he’s tried to unilaterally rewrite the Structure by signing an govt order on Day 1 that sought to finish birthright citizenship, regardless that doing so is broadly unpopular. (The textual content of the 14th Modification explicitly ensures citizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil, which means Trump’s tried ban is blatantly unconstitutional.) He’s additionally moved to shutter authorities businesses accountable for administering overseas help—with out giving warning to Congress, regardless of lawsuits and protests from federal judges.

Whereas there are a number of cases the place different presidents have claimed extraconstitutional energy, these have normally been when there’s a risk to nationwide safety, because the Instances notes.


Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Lots of Trump’s White Home actions haven’t been explicitly associated to nationwide safety, however it’s not surprising that the convicted felon is suggesting he could be above the legislation, anyhow. In spite of everything, the Supreme Court docket dominated this previous July that Trump can’t be prosecuted for “official duties” executed as president, granting him a major diploma of immunity from authorized challenges. In response to Justice Sonia Sotomayor and quite a few authorized consultants, that ruling would permit Trump to legally order the U.S. Navy’s Seal Workforce 6 to assassinate a political rival.

What’s worse, although, is that a lot of Trump’s legal supporters are attempting to check whether or not they’re above the legislation, too. In response to a bombshell report by The Wall Road Journal, a number of of those that had been granted pardons after storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have argued that Trump’s handout ought to absolve them of just about all crimes they’re accused of committing, together with fees associated to a homicide conspiracy and the possession of kid sexual abuse imagery. Their argument is that proof for these different fees was typically recovered throughout their Jan. 6 investigations, so they need to be immune from prosecutions based mostly on that proof.

Trump’s argument is harmful but in addition deeply and clearly flawed. In spite of everything, anybody can break the legislation and declare they’re doing it to “save” the nation. 

Even some fellow Republicans have instructed that we take Trump’s risk significantly. In a not-so-subtle message to the president, former Vice President Mike Pence posted a 2010 article he penned on the bounds of presidential energy. 

Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California additionally reposted Trump’s remark and argued that the assertion was merely one other occasion of the president likening his govt authority to authoritarianism. 

“Spoken like a true dictator,” Schiff stated.

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