{"id":3022,"date":"2018-03-25T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:55:37","slug":"alternative-fact-constitutional-amendments-are-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Fact: Constitutional Amendments Are Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternative Fact: Courtesy of Mnuchin on Fox News Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MNUCHIN: Well, it doesn’t need to be reality. And I’m not going to comment on what the president will do. But as you heard him say, he’s not planning on doing this again. I think — I think they should give the president a line item veto. These things should be looked at —<\/p>\n

WALLACE: But that’s been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, sir.<\/p>\n

MNUCHIN: Well, again, Congress could pass a rule, OK, that allows them to do it. But —<\/p>\n

WALLACE: No, no, sir, it would be a constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n

MNUCHIN: Chris, we don’t — we don’t need to get into a debate in terms of — there’s different ways of doing this.<\/p>\n

Real Fact: It actually\u00a0is<\/em> a Constitutional amendment, and while there may well be many ways of “doing this” … they shouldn’t fare any better. That’s the basic principal of the three branches of government. Sadly, I suspect many in Trump’s administration could use a civics refresher<\/a>. While the principal of a line-item veto could be rewritten in an altered form,\u00a0the decision in\u00a0Clinton v<\/em>. City of\u00a0New York<\/em>, 524 U.S. 417 (1998)<\/a> wasn’t quibbling details. They found that the Executive branch altering legislation violates the\u00a0Presentment Clause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alternative Fact: Courtesy of Mnuchin on Fox News Sunday: MNUCHIN: Well, it doesn’t need to be reality. And I’m not going to comment on what the president will do. But as you heard him say, he’s not planning on doing this again. I think — I think they should give the president a line item …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[84,386],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-alternativefact","tag-civics-for-grownups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}