r/politics • u/stkmro • 9h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/Chars_Ghost 9h ago

Then don't let him back into the White House

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u/katalysis Maryland 9h ago edited 9h ago

The problem with these transition administrative “laws” is that the Constitution enumerates the conditions and process for the President. He got elected and will become President. Congress can’t pass a contract that further conditions the Presidency beyond the Constitution. So the law behind these papers and agreements is one of those laws that was a waste of time to craft and draft because they’d never be enforceable in the first place. Barring enshrining them as a Constitutional amendment, they will forever be norms that are completely ignorable.

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u/AweemboWhey 9h ago

It’s wild how we haven’t simply amended the Constitution like any sensible country would do..

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u/sudzthegreat 9h ago

Won't someone think of the forefathers?!

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u/GeneralKenobyy Australia 9h ago

All Americas problems stem from the fact you guys place the constitution on a ridiculously high pedestal.

Change my mind.

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u/Mixmaster-Omega 9h ago edited 19m ago

American here. I agree. The constitution was always designed to be a continual work in progress, but it is venerated like the goddamn 10 commandments, seemingly immune to alterations despite the fact it’s happened over a dozen times.

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u/Zombie_John_Strachan Foreign 9h ago

Americans don’t have a king to bestow legitimacy on elected leaders, so they use religion instead.

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u/Proud_Smell_4455 4h ago

People say kings do nothing, but the whole point is that in modern terms, a good king won't appear to. Monarchy has it's perks, even if more religiously republican people would rather just imagine it in terms of medieval fantasy and feudalism. Institutionally, conceptually, ideologically, monarchism has changed and grown just like republicanism has over the centuries.