[quote]Flagpole wrote:
1) Trump is the Commander-in-Chief. He gets to tell the military and its leaders when to jump and how high...short of breaking a law.
-- So, he can use a war criminal as a campaign prop. And he can order the military to kill Americans if he feels threatened. Protect the president at all costs; even the cost of American lives.
2) In the past, there has been a standing agreement with Presidents that they would let the military brass manage their own. Trump has broken that.
-- Not an agreement. A following of the law. Military law in this case. Meaning Trump has broken the law.
3) There is no law that says you are allowed to wear that shirt you are wearing today, and yet, you are doing so.
-- This makes no sense at all. Shirts have nothing to do with military law.
4) Many Federal laws come from something in the Constitution being challenged. Right now the Constitution says Trump is the Commander-in-Chief, and legal scholars have long debated what exactly that means. No one in the military is even pushing back on the fact that he has the authority to do this. The one guy said he couldn't "in good conscious" do so, but that was his own personal feeling about it. You might not like it, but as things are today, he has the authority to do so...again, so says every legal expert I have read comments from or heard from on a news show (and they didn't say they THINK he can...they have said flat out that he has this authority). Why should I believe you over them? If you don't like the ambiguity here, launch a challenge. The Constitution is filled with ambiguity...with guns, with impeachment, with many things.
-- There is no Federal law allowing Trump to override military laws. They are separate.
Finally, you are wrong...INFINITY! There, now I don't need to respond to you again.
-- So childish of you. You are the one who is INFINITY WRONG!