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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article II, Section 1:  “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States.”[/quote]

Ah but what is executive power?  It's the power granted to the President by the Constitution, the Legislature and the courts, and nothing more.  Not whatever the President wants it to be.  We are not a dictatorship.  The President does not have whatever unlimited powers he wants.[/quote]

No. Read duties of the president in the Constitution. As the legislature, you don't redefine the duties of a president by definitions and statutes. It's stated in the language.

You don't create federal cabinet level departments under the executive branch and then tell the administrative state they have power over the president. No way in hell is that how our govt is supposed to run.

[b]US codes and statutes do NOT obviate the Constitution. Ever.[/b][/quote]

The bold is true. But, you seem to have missed the fact that if the legislative branch approves legislation and the President signs and that the judiciary branch finds that it is constitutional, the statute is not obviating the Constitution. The so-called administrative state does not have power over the President but the President does not have the power to ignore laws.

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If the administrative state does not have power over the president, then why was DJT dragged into court over classified documents. HE embodies the classification since he is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Classifications and state secrets aren't mentioned in the Constitution, but the president IS the top dog in the executive branch, which the military and IC fall under.  Almost ALL federal departments, bureaus and agencies fall under the executive branch and the cabinets do  also.[/quote]

These were documents that TRUMP'S administration said were top secret and classified.  Meaning they needed to stay in the purview of the government's national security apparatus, and not stacked up in bankers boxes in a Mar A Lago closet where any random guest could have access to them.  When his term ended he became a civilian,  not President, not executive branch, not anything - civilian.  Those documents should never have come with him.[/quote]

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