{"id":1756,"date":"2017-10-12T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2017-10-12T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T13:25:19","slug":"trump-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#038; The NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting observation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ruDf7iWwez\">https:\/\/t.co\/ruDf7iWwez<\/a><br \/>I&#39;m no more a law expert than he is a world leader but this sounds familiar.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JOEL9ONE\/status\/917580661363560448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The section in question is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Code, Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 11, Section 227<\/a>. If any player is damaged (in the legal sense &#8212; loses money because they are benched or terminated for protesting), they should have standing for a complaint. It&#8217;s not civil, so the president is not sheltered whilst in office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a covered person. (b)(3) specifically lists the president. So there&#8217;s no quibbling on this count.<\/p>\n<p>(a)(2) is a point where linguistics can be argued. &#8220;influences, or offers or threatens to influence, the official act of another,&#8221; &#8212; he has threatened to <i>eliminate<\/i>\u00a0tax exemptions which is threatening to influence the official act of another to eliminate {not <em>withhold, <\/em>the term used in (a)(1)}<\/p>\n<p>And the big argument &#8211; (a) &#8220;with the intent to influence, <em>solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation<\/em>, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity&#8221; (emphasis is mine). Is his threat solely on the basis of political affiliation?<\/p>\n<p>News organisations targeted by Trump may have a case under the same law. It&#8217;s a reach, but they may have a better case for Trump&#8217;s threats to be based &#8220;solely&#8221; on political affiliation (although Trump isn&#8217;t doing anything from political affiliation. He&#8217;s doing it from Trump affiliation).\u00a0I don&#8217;t think any network has been sufficiently harmed (yet) so as to show damages, so that argument is moot. He pulls a Nixon and starts challenging licenses, though &#8230; there&#8217;s precedent that legal fees and such don&#8217;t constitute damages. Loss of advertising revenue?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting observation: https:\/\/t.co\/ruDf7iWwezI&#39;m no more a law expert than he is a world leader but this sounds familiar. &mdash; Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) October 10, 2017 The section in question is U.S. Code, Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 11, Section 227. 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