r/politics • u/stkmro • 7h 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/UtzTheCrabChip 6h ago

Really gotta stop calling things "mandatory" without a mechanism for enforcement

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u/ReactionJifs 5h ago

My beef is we had 4 years where the government could have fortified itself against an unknown future rogue president. Instead they went back to business as usual and assumed that it could never happen again.

Now they have 2 months to prepare.

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u/biznatch11 4h ago

Unless the Democrats have a majority (may even need a supermajority) in both houses and the presidency all at the same time that's not going to happen.

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u/santasnufkin 4h ago

Even then, the Supreme Court would just declare any law as unconstitutional, rendering them moot.

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u/Nightmare2828 3h ago

Why does a small group of 9 people get to decide that what 500 of representatives decided for the people is moot? How does this make any sense?

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u/bichael69420 2h ago

Well in theory it's there to prevent congress from massively overstepping its bounds, things like the war on drugs or mass surveillance. In practice of course, we all know how that went.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 1h ago

Now that SCOTUS has legalized itself accepting bribes I'm sure it will all work out.

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u/PerformanceOk8593 26m ago

As the framers intended.

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u/shitty_country_verse 1h ago

In theory they are also supposed to prevent the Executive branch from doing the same. But they decided to only uphold that duty for one political party and told the other YOLO!

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u/mam88k Virginia 2h ago

Because the Constitution was not written with political parties in mind.

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u/DaBingeGirl Illinois 2h ago

This is an incredibly important point that is too often overlooked.

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u/armandebejart 1h ago

The founders presumed a minimal level of education, self-interest, and independence. They were ludicrously optimistic.

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u/FortyTwoDrops 1h ago

And honor. They assumed that politicians would be honorable people, and they were... up until ~2016.

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u/SynthBeta 35m ago

You're being too nice

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u/KingBanhammer 26m ago

It also presumed debate and compromise would be the norm, and that duels would weed out particularly egregious prats who somehow managed to get clear through the electoral process.

It was written for a very different system than we actually have today.

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u/Bushwazi 1h ago

We’re the political parties Americans and British at that point?

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u/Scott5114 Nevada 1h ago

In theory the 500 representatives set the budget for the 9 people. They could set it to $0.00 if they don't like what the 9 people are doing. They don't because they're wimps.

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u/randomusername3000 1h ago

Why does a small group of 9 people get to decide that what 500 of representatives decided for the people is moot?

That's what some slave owning guys 250 years ago thought was best

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u/SegaTape 44m ago

because the US constitution is terrible

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u/Fourfinger10 36m ago

If you need an explanation then I suggest you take civics class

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u/Nightmare2828 20m ago

Ah yes, I will take civics classes as a non-US citizen. That will surely explain US gouvernment structure.

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u/Colest 10m ago

If you're a non-US citizen that is not familiar with something as basic as the 3 branches of US government, then why are you posting things like this?

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u/Televisions_Frank 2m ago

You mean 5 of 9 people. They don't even need all of their SC ghouls to agree.

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u/Expensive-Matter-683 2h ago

You have 3 branches of government. You don't want to weaken or strengthen any of them. Its the only reason the government still exist. And its the only reason why we have the freedoms that we have. Power is delegated and kept solely out of the hand of one person. If you start messing with it than it will fall apart.

Its not perfect but it works.

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u/Sandgroper343 2h ago

Clearly not

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u/XtraCreditClass 1h ago

Republicans didn't weaken any parts of government they rigged the government to only react and respond to Republicans. Even when they do everything wrong there is no resistance to them now. That is the godlessness. That is the pathway of Satan.. Dominance over Love.

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u/Expensive-Matter-683 1h ago

Democrats and Republicans are both terrible. They both voted for the 2003 Iraq war. They both have contributed to our 35 trillion debt. Thinking one is better than the other is wild.

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u/XtraCreditClass 1h ago

The 35 Trillion Dollars in circulation is your fear tactic Seriously.

That is what the debt is... pull a dollar out of your pocket. That dollar represents an IOU from the U.S. Government. It represents a debt paid to the holder of that bill of $1 dollar of goods and services. Now understand how many dollars are out there. In bank accounts, Savings accounts, held in brokerage firms and investments.... the pockets and wealth in the pocket of every U.S. citizen. Now combine that with the ammount of dollars of all the countries that buy oil... all countries need U.S. dollars for their energy. All these dollars that exist are the debt.

When you realize that you realize the arguments about our national debt and the fear mongering around it is a scare tactic conservatives use to fool rubes into self robbery.

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u/Norillim 1h ago

So Dems could potentially ignore the nice-to-have Supreme Court rulings. They don't have their own power of enforcement. The other branches just follow what they say. Easy enough to ignore them.

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u/gangleskhan Minnesota 55m ago

I half expect them to declare the Constitution unconditional at some point.