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"How do you deal with an American president who does not obey the US
constitution? The question has arisen because the recent episode where
deportation flights carrying Venezuelans were dispatched to El Salvador,
despite a court ruling that those flights must not proceed, suggests Donald
Trump’s administration has a limited understanding of the separation of powers
in the US. A president has no power to defy a court order.
Similarly, a Brown University medical professor, Rasha Alawieh, was deported to
Lebanon because of a perceived sympathy for Hezbollah, despite the fact she had
a valid US work visa and despite a judge’s order blocking her removal from the
US.
This administration’s seemingly blatant disregarding of constitutional
procedure is not the first time such a problem has arisen. Early in the life of
the new republic it was posed by the election to the presidency in 1828 of
Andrew Jackson. Jackson, an unashamed populist, harboured deep suspicion of all
federal institutions. His belief in states’ rights sometimes trumped his
commitment to the union.
Trump echoes Jackson in many ways. Just as Trump reviles Joe Biden, so Jackson
scorned his predecessor, John Quincy Adams. Trump’s attacks on institutions
such as USAid and the Department of Education, is echoed by Jackson’s
extraordinary war on the Bank of the United States, which he thought too big
and grand for a democratic people.
But the parallels come closest in relation to forced expulsion, whether of
individuals in Trump’s case, or of whole peoples in Jackson’s."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
