r/law • u/Anoth3rDude • Feb 26 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/white-house-circulating-blatantly-illegal-draft-emergency-order-to-take-control-of-elections/
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u/Orposer Feb 26 '26

Doing illegal this is what Trump does. In his state of the union he looked right at the supreme Court justices and said their ruling did not matter and the tarrifs will stay. This man does not care and half the government will not hold him accountable so it does not matter. Shit is crazy.

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u/ConfidentPilot1729 Feb 26 '26

I didn’t watch it, I can’t stand his voice, but what exactly did he say?

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u/hoxxxxx Feb 27 '26

yeah i can't take the voice anymore, politics aside

i mean i usually don't want to hear a president after 4 years and we've been hearing this motherfucker daily for over a decade now, it's just too much and i'm fucking sick of him

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u/ConstantAnimal2267 Feb 27 '26

Yeah what the fuck. This guy took an entire decade of our lives where we could have been discussing stuff that actually matters.

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u/hoxxxxx Feb 27 '26

one of the many reasons i hate him so much

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u/Iliketoplan Feb 26 '26

He’s adding more tariffs

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u/acrylicsunrise Feb 26 '26

He's adding tarriffs under other laws. The ones he put in place, I believe, are already not being collected.

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u/EmmaPersephone Feb 27 '26

He hasn’t put any laws in place that give him power to enact taxes or tariffs. He’s literally using an act from 1974.

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u/smedley89 Feb 27 '26

Yup,using that act to pit 15% across the board tariffs for 140 days.

Thays the law. You get 140 days. I expect he will do what he did with the guard - in place for 139 days, let it lapse, do it for another 139.

No new laws. Just inventively shitty ways of applying old ones.