‘When somebody’s president of the United States, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s gotta be. … The federal government has absolute power.’

by | Apr 13, 2020

‘When somebody’s president of the United States, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s gotta be. … The federal government has absolute power.’

by | Apr 13, 2020

It started with these tweets this morning:

Then boy did he just dig the deepest constitutional hole in the world with this one.

Lady reporter kept asking him, “Who told you that? That’s not true.”

Then Pence took the podium, was asked if that’s what he thought too, and cited the “national emergency.”

Mostly they were just bullshitting. They’re not going to try to order the governors to obey any lifting of the lockdowns. But it does go to show how easy it is for them to reach for such framing.

(It was hilarious to see liberal-media boy in the audience immediately invoke the 10th Amendment against Trump, who just shrugged it off. Jeez, what do you support slavery now too?!)

Scott Horton

Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and host of the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of four books. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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