{"id":138711,"date":"2019-05-08T23:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T05:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138711"},"modified":"2019-05-08T23:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T05:41:37","slug":"trump-hates-that-whole-checks-and-balances-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/08\/trump-hates-that-whole-checks-and-balances-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump hates that whole &#8220;Checks and Balances&#8221; thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Having spent the week thumbing his nose at the Legislative branch, Trump is pivoting to attack the Judicial branch.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EHItrBkCpE\">https:\/\/t.co\/EHItrBkCpE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1126304118706806784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having spent the week thumbing his nose at the Legislative branch, Trump is pivoting to attack the Judicial branch. https:\/\/t.co\/EHItrBkCpE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Donald Trump seems convinced that the US Government should be run like a business &#8212; in terms of a personally owned business where he can give orders and they get obeyed. Unfortunately, this whole thing about &#8220;laws&#8221; and &#8220;the Constitution&#8221; (if, clearly, not &#8220;tradition&#8221; and &#8220;shame&#8221;) keep getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p>So, having spent the past week or two telling his co-equal branch of government &#8212; Congress &#8212; that they&#8217;re not the boss of him now, he&#8217;s now working to keep the federal courts from restricting him from doing whatever the hell he decides he wants to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having defied the Legislative branch, now he&#8217;s decided to hobble the Judicial branch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,358,1071],"tags":[329,1077],"class_list":["post-138711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-nb","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132696,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/disappearing-the-judiciary.html","url_meta":{"origin":138711,"position":0},"title":"Disappearing the Judiciary","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Jan-17 10:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So here's something weird. 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There's nothing particularly party-focused about their activities, as far as that goes -- their job is to wade through federal regulations to determine whether appealing veterans are eligible for lifetime disability claim benefits.Yet when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":160991,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/brother-can-you-spare-the-dime.html","url_meta":{"origin":138711,"position":3},"title":"Brother, Can You Spare the Dime?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Mar-26 4:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So much for the idea of extending an olive branch.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dime-2026-650x650.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dime-2026-650x650.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dime-2026-650x650.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":132176,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/trump-names-john-kelly-for-homeland-security.html","url_meta":{"origin":138711,"position":4},"title":"Trump names John Kelly for Homeland Security","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-16 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Kelly sounds like he would make a great ... 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