Alternet - Critics of President Donald Trump often accuse him of blatantly violating federal and state laws in an effort to increase his power. But according to The New Republic's Matt Ford, a major part of Trump's ongoing power grab is using a different tactic: unearthing "moribund" laws and looking for ways to weaponize them.
The "moribund" laws that Trump and his legal team are digging up, Ford reports in The New Republic, are still on the books — and they are finding ways to exploit them.
"Congress has spent the last
two centuries passing laws," Ford explains. "These laws often remain
on the books, so to speak, long after their purpose has been fulfilled until
lawmakers repeal them. Occasionally, the Trump administration finds something
buried within this back catalogue that it can wield for its own purposes — and
to no good end."
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