Surely you understand what "start looking for an alternative" means.
I don't know about that. Obama and his administration "ordered" Americans to purchase health insurance or else face financial penalties. Not to mention, in doing so, took away the choice of the individual about which insurance companies and doctors they could use.
Yeah, I just read about it a little more. I thought when the President says "I hereby order" that it was an executive order. I see it is not official since it is not on paper, at least not yet. So what is all the blubber about?
Name an executive order that applies, as in those ordered to do something, to persons not employed by the federal government.
Perhaps, but Congress seemed to do it under the directive of the administration. And "we the people" had no input, since we were lied to ("If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.") That was one law that should've been put to a referendum. Hell, even Congress didn't know what they were passing. "We have to pass it to see what's in it" ring a bell? Well, what was in it appears to have come from a dark stinky place.This is incorrect. Congress did that. The people voted on to make decisions that we (the private citizen) have all agreed to abide. That is the power given to the Legislative Branch, not the Executive.
There are lots of them, especially saying who you can trade or deal with.Name an executive order that applies, as in those ordered to do something, to persons not employed by the federal government.
There are lots of them, especially saying who you can trade or deal with.
And you are still arguing about a tweet, which is absolutely meaningless.
Here ya go.Name me such an executive order.
And so we worry about spoken words not tweets?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13722Executive Order 13722
Blocking Property of the Government of North Korea and the Workers' Party of Korea, and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to North KoreaSection 3.
(a) The following are prohibited:
(i) the exportation or reexportation, direct or indirect, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, services, or technology to North Korea;
(ii) new investment in North Korea by a United States person, wherever located; and
(iii) any approval, financing, facilitation, or guarantee by a United States person, wherever located, of a transaction by a foreign person where the transaction by that foreign person would be prohibited by this section if performed by a United States person or within the United States.
Moving the goalpsts?This isn't a binding action placed upon private interest, but rather a directive to the Department of the Treasury and Department of State, from powers codified through Congress. In other words the president always had these power via Congressional approval. It's not a unilateral power taken on the whims of the president.
Name an executive order that applies, as in those ordered to do something, to persons not employed by the federal government.
or by a United States person, wherever located
Moving the goalpsts?
This is incorrect. Congress did that. The people voted on to make decisions that we (the private citizen) have all agreed to abide. That is the power given to the Legislative Branch, not the Executive.
It is exactly binding upon private interests, or can you not see the part I bolded? How do you figure this doesn't?
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In this week's episode of "Kut is Mean to Trump."
"Ordered?" Ya'll ok with this? Seriously, what the hell?
So when a president sanctions a person or country, is he not ordering American businesses not to do business with that person or country? If he were to sanction Chinese chemical companies found to be flooding the country with fentanyl, would he not be ordering Americans not to do business with those companies? And would it not be perfectly legal and likely constitutional? And what is to stop him from declaring the Chinese government as supporting chemical terrorism against the United Staes? Could he not then sanction the entire Chinese chemical industry or the whole country and in effect order American businesses to find other suppliers? Isn't that what we've already done to Iran?
Oy Vey! Always with the Trump as Hitler/Mussolini/Dictator narrative just looking for a chance to use it
That is what trolls do.
Like most of America’s sanctions regimes, Trump’s order to reimpose sanctions rests on authority granted under a little-known and even less understood statute that gives the president sweeping authority to regulate certain aspects of international trade and commerce: the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Practically, IEEPA and the Trading With the Enemy Act are the same, but with one notable difference: While the United States must be in a state of war for the president to regulate trade and commerce under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the President has complete discretion to declare a national emergency under IEEPA. The only requirement is that the emergency be an “unusual and extraordinary” threat that emanates in whole or substantially outside of the United States. What exactly constitutes “unusual” or “extraordinary,” however, is up for interpretation.
Once the president declares a threat, he can investigate, regulate, or prohibit a range of transactions and economic activities with few exceptions —primarily related to humanitarian aid and education materials.
What can the president do under IEEPA? Perhaps a better question is, what can’t the president do under IEEPA. Since its passage, presidents have relied on IEEPA to enact financial and economic sanctions against a host of countries, including Iran, North Korea, Syria, South Sudan, Russia, and Cuba to name a few, for threats ranging from terrorism and narcotics trafficking to human rights violations and WMD proliferation. One of the first uses was against Iran in 1979 over the hostage crisis. Signed by then-President Jimmy Carter, the sanctions froze Iranian assets and properties within the United States. In fact, since 2000, Presidents have used IEEPA in more than 400 executive actions. Not all of these actions were new, however. Some extended the timetable or expanded the scope of previous orders.
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/where-does-trump-get-power-reimpose-sanctions
Where Does Trump Get the Power to Reimpose Sanctions?
Powers granted/ceded to the president in 1977