cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49795
IN 16 pages, the Trump administration’s new official counterterrorism strategy outlines in broad terms who it views as terrorist threats and priority targets, ranging from anti-fascist activists to ISIS and so-called narco-terrorists. The line “We will find you, and we will kill you” appears in the memo.
Text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It has always bothered me that the First Amendment says nothing about the Executive Branch doing these things (such as via Executive Order), only Congress.
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Well, the Founders naively assumed that the official with the responsibility of executing the laws would also have to follow them. Somehow, our Originalist Supreme Court didn’t get the memo .
It doesn’t say anything about that because the president doesn’t have the power to make laws, only Congress has that power.
SCOTUS: What the founders really mean by this was only Republicans are allowed to. No one else. They didn’t write it down because it was just obvious at the time.