Omniabstracta wrote:Senkaku wrote:Because no one thinks he came up with it or pulled the trigger, because he's been under de facto house arrest for days after the whole of the rest of government has resorted to informally denying his authority to make up for the fact that no one seems to feel any terribly urgent need to formally remove him?
Well yeah, but if that’s the case then it’s Pence or somebody else actually usurping the constitutional powers of the President, unlike the DCNG mobilization from earlier, which is a hell of a bold step.
I mean, not necessarily. They probably did go through the steps of putting the paper on his desk and making him sign it; it's not like he was some super-hands-on, reading-heavy guy before all this, so I'm not sure it's really THAT much of a usurpation in their eyes, to them it probably doesn't feel that different from business as usual.