The White House insisted on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s naturalization ceremony at the Republican National Convention (RNC) that night wasn’t a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive government officials from participating in political activity while on duty.
Wolf praised Trump’s “dedication to the rule of law.”
Illegally appointed minion praising Russian installed IMPeetus!
Truth = Trump’s dedication to lawlessness and cruelty to immgrants cannot be emphasized enough, so Im posting this again 
New Ad: Miles Taylor reveals that Trump offered pardons to DHS staff in exchange for implementing his illegal immigration policies at the border.
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) August 25, 2020
Airing in swing states on Fox News Channel. pic.twitter.com/D9ilRT497h
Can anybody answer this? Can person with no official position administer the naturalization oath? Or did they hold a valid ceremony afterwards?
I have to say that I initially feel sorry for the new citizens used as props for this shitshow. I wonder if they knew what they were getting into.
Of course they probably know more about US history and the Constitution than the Rezidentura.
Looks like those new citizens were carefully selected to show that the Trump maladministration is quite ecumenical in bestowing the bounty of US citizenship on every race, creed and color.
It’s likely this
Ridiculous. Political activity is inherently public. That’s the entire point of the law.
And the mail in ballots, completed and ready for a signature.
“The White House publicized the content of the event on a public website this afternoon and the campaign decided to use the publicly available content for campaign purposes,” a White House official told TPM. “There was no violation of law.”
Nothing is real, but words make it so
Considering that Scott is for mail in ballots, the GOP is still working on that.
The Hatch Act is dead and Trump (with his GOP enablers) killed it.
No surprise, but just one more abused norm that people or now going to have to waste time litigating - whether the pardon power can be used to explicitly “request” (order) criminal activity. And it’s not a given what that ruling would be.
ETA: Who decided it should say “Trump offers pardons for bad policy?” The worst policies in the world don’t require pardons if they’re legal, so it should say “Trump offers pardons for criminal activity he orders.”
One of the many things I wish Democrats will learn from this administration and Mitch McConnell is that republicans (not just Trump!) will not follow any ‘norms’ of governing unless those norms are codified as actual laws. Sure even then it’s a “maybe”, but Dems need to learn that norms are just restraining them and either let those go too, or make them actually laws with teeth and keep the playing field level with a republican party that gives no shits about norms the Dems respect.
We got to watch new citizens being hatched like baby chicks at the Science Museum.
This has been one of my biggest fears about the consequences about republican behavior. It’s impossible to codify every little bit of power that someone could abuse. What we really need is a voting population that understands how govt is supposed to operate, but I realize that horse has left the barn.
Today or tomorrow we will have General Milley or any of other Trump’s generals praising the glories of the Dear Leader. And they will claim it was all kosher because he was not wearing his all his medals in his ribbon.
Republicans don’t mind at all, no mention of it in FNC or NRO sites.
Well that’s an odd position. President saying fuck the law I do what I want and that being justified with “he is dedicated to rule of law” yak by his underlings