Hoyer: by way of the Constitution, the Chief Executive has prosecutorial discretion to ignore laws passed by the Legislative branch

from protein wisdom by Jeff G.:

Hoyer: by way of the Constitution, the Chief Executive has prosecutorial discretion to ignore laws passed by the Legislative branch:
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Or, put another way, according to the number 3 Democrat, the President has the Constitutional right to rule as a dictator, and the Constitution essentially provides for a complete rejection of the notion of separation of powers the framers put in place to prevent a dictatorial centralized authority of the kind they’d just fought a revolution to free themselves of.
– Which, that sounds about right. Just so long as chief executives don’t start acting like imperial presidents. Like that evil Chimpy McHitlerburton did. When he, you know, did all that stuff that was, like, imperial and all.

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