During the Korean War union workers struck a number of steel mills. Steel is, of course, needed for all kinds of war materials. Truman, Commander-in-Chief, worried that the troops would run out of those materials, and he ordered the strike to end and seized the steel mills.
Did he have that right? The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that he did not. Some justices recognized that the President had some emergency powers, but he did not have the power to seize private property. Within hours of the Court’s decision, Truman told Sawyer, his Secretary of Commerce, to vacate the mills.
Now we are getting one “Executive Order” after another. Phony emergencies. Silly shit. Today, for example, Trump issued an executive order that you can’t burn the flag. Of course you can. The Supreme Court already ruled that flag burning as a political protest was a protected act under the freedom of speech clause. Evidently Trump set a penalty of one year.
I heard this on the radio, so I don’t know the details, but you can’t punish someone without a trial. It’s called a bill of attainder. It’s forbidden in Article 1 of the Constitution.
Trump is not only the worst president in our history (he surpassed Buchanan in his first term), but he is the dumbest.
I wish he literally dumb. I'm so sick of the groundless bragging, I ceaseless whining. In want a do-over!
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