Does the president even have any power?

Clearly, being an Article III judge = absolute power

It’s why trade negotiations never get anywhere close to be good for the US.

How is the cia circumventing him to help continue wars?

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How is the cia circumventing him to help continue wars?

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Plausible deniability

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You'd have to be a damn fool to be crying that the president can't just act as a dictator

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I dont understand why people think hes acting like a dictator. Hes doing nothing new that hasnt already been done before.

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I dont understand why people think hes acting like a dictator. Hes doing nothing new that hasnt already been done before.

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I think you may be confused

I'm not suggesting that he is necessarily acting like a dictator

It's just surprising when people are pissed that he can't act like a dictator. Wanting the executive branch to just rule by decree unchecked is very short sighted.

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Bush and Obama didn’t get this blowback about deportations.

It’s like you frickers are just ignoring the obvious.

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A lot of the Obama "deportations" were people being turned around at the border being counted as deportations. That was an attempt to show that he was stronger on border enforcement than he actually was.

Trump probably isn't doing himself any favors by sending people to prisons in El Salvador. Send them back to their home country and you might get less blow back. Or at least send them to Mexico since they border the U.S.

Constitution is 100% up to the imagination of a fed judge to interpret. That is the power they have.. they can claim anything is unconstitutional, and ya can't really argue against their interpretation because it's 100% up to their imagination. One has to depend on other judges to interpret things differently.

It's too easy for corrupt judges to shut down a president's agenda.. by just labeling everything they don't like as unconstitutional.

Honestly, I think only the supreme court should be able to stop the executive branch. Doesn't even have to be a majority vote. Just let only those at the very top of the judicial branch, be able to counter those at the very top of the executive branch.

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And it's been increasing exponentially over the last few presidents.

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Correct

Both the left and the right have been wrong to complain that the executive branch doesn't get their way as easily as they would like

The last thing we should be doing is expanding executive power any further than we already have

I get that it's frustrating when you can't get what you want as quickly as you want it, but sometimes that's a sign of the systems working the way they were intended to work

Because the legislative branch has become so impotent. They seem more focused on just being career politicians and getting rich than actually doing legislative shite.

Presidents have 2 terms max to try to get their shite done. They don't have the luxury of sitting at that position for 10+ terms, like people in the legislative branch can do. Presidents get in, and if they are completely blocked by the legislative branch, they've to come up with other means to get their agenda done.. i don't blame the presidents.