I'm british, so this should be unvarnished good news. but I just can't imagine this will survive any time past the first bad fox news headline.
If only the non-binding is the issue, I believe the supreme court has in the past few decades ruled treaties ratified by congress aren't binding either despite what the constitution says and that congress can undo them by not implementing them or something.
This supreme court doesn't appear to be constrained by past rulings or even constitutional amendments. And 6 of 9 are on team whatever-Trump-wants.
Goldwater v. Carter (1979) let the president unilaterally dissolve a ratified treaty
This announcement itself has Vance, Sankar, and Kupor's fingerprints all over it.
For tech policy this admin is a basically A16Z and Founders Fund people, but the last admin leaned Sequoia Capital.
This is why you see a lot of crypto (A16Z) this admin and GreenTech (Sequoia) the last admin.
No, but its not based on real law either. Its just whatever the leadership thinks it can get away with.
If you can please the head of the court, then you can do what you want. if you fall out of favour, so do your plans.
I agree. We've ended up adopting the worst aspects of SpAds with none of the checks that come from a PS. DOGE lead to a large portion of the SES (our equivalent of the SCS except they don't make tea, bring biscuits, and act as bagmen for ministers) clamming their mouths.
What Trump is doing was essentially the position of Thomas Dewey, had he been elected President in 1944, but Roosevelt concealed his health problems. Dewey was very specific that Democrat New Deal agencies and programs would be eliminated.
It is the end of cooperative politics and compromise. Given the cognitive impairment, it is likely the beginning of what economists will be calling an "economic adjustment" (administration preferred language) due to AI and wasteful social programs. When cities like Denver want to take out a $1 billion loan to manage their budget, it doesn't bode well. Denver has few economic prospects, and has about $1 billion in existing debt. Los Angeles recently did the same thing.