The Supremes are fickle folks who ultimately get to decide what is constitutional or not, depending on their own opinions, not what the masses agree on.
Had Trump gotten pence on board, he may well have ended with it being found constitutional to do just that.
That’s the bigger point. Just because it’s a novel argument doesn’t mean that it won’t fly, particularly with this set of Supremes
Every single person he talked to not named donbald told him it wouldn’t fly, and I doubt he was interviewing people from our side of the aisle, so to speak.
Which is where Trump’s mistake was, in not hiring me.
When a woman’s constitutional rights to an abortion can be reversed overnight when a single person dies, anything is possible. And this approach had more behind it than the challenge to the ACA that came within a single vote of being the law of the land
Breaking: this is amazing news. Meng was thorn in Canada’s backside and the Rumpian administration put it there.
Background:
In August 2018, a judge in the Eastern District of New York issues a warrant for the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.
U.S. authorities accuse Meng of using a Huawei subsidiary, Skycom, to do business in Iran in violation of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.
Authorities allege that Meng misled an HSBC executive during a 2013 meeting about her corporation’s ties to the subsidiary. In court, Meng’s lawyers will later claim that Meng’s presentation was not misleading and that none of her actions had been shown to cause any alleged harm to the bank.
What’s amazing about it? China took two unrelated people hostage until the US basically dropped the charges (Meng just has to keep her nose clean for 15 months and record is wiped clean).