{"id":2179,"date":"2025-01-26T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-first-week-congress-courts-consider-their-checks-and-balances\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:24:49","slug":"trumps-first-week-congress-courts-consider-their-checks-and-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-first-week-congress-courts-consider-their-checks-and-balances\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s first week: Congress, courts consider their &#8220;checks and balances&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>President Donald Trump descended on Washington last week weathering a cold front that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-presidential-inauguration-day-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pushed his inauguration indoors<\/a><\/span>. But the winter winds were no match for the flurry of executive orders, pardons, and pens he let fly. Mr. Trump swept away Biden administration policies with each jagged stroke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To many in Washington, it seems like history is unfolding before us. &#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; said presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library in Mount Vernon, Va. &#8220;The thing that&#8217;s really interesting about studying history is when people are living through historic moments, they <em>know<\/em> it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that seeing <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/donald-trump-win-presidency-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a president come back after being defeated in an election<\/a><\/span>, that&#8217;s only happened one other time, and came back after <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-trial-verdict-jury\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">being indicted on dozens of felony charges<\/a><\/span>, and was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/january-6-committee-final-report-release-capitol-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">involved in an insurrection to overthrow the previous election<\/a><\/span>. These are just not things we&#8217;ve seen before,&#8221; Chervinsky said. &#8220;And so, there&#8217;s no doubt that we are living in a historic moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his first day in office, Mr. Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-jan-6-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pardoned some 1,500 January 6th defendants<\/a><\/span>, and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-executive-orders-actions-first-day-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">broke the record for signing executive orders<\/a><\/span>, issuing even more in the days that followed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Trump Signs Executive Actions Related To Cryptocurrency, AI \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/26\/4e8cc9ee-c025-4272-b255-ea1451d237a8\/thumbnail\/620x465\/4f97c036f760212c53903c4ae327a0bb\/trump-with-executive-order-getty-1280-2194907662.jpg?v=e306e7b9fefc168c00baa623d76d1eaf 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/26\/4e8cc9ee-c025-4272-b255-ea1451d237a8\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/094894ae819b53ebf3a6bd632c418990\/trump-with-executive-order-getty-1280-2194907662.jpg?v=e306e7b9fefc168c00baa623d76d1eaf 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Yuri Gripas\/Abaca\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They range from <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-rename-gulf-of-mexico-denali\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">re-naming the Gulf of Mexico<\/a><\/span> \u2026 to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-orders-end-diversity-programs-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ending diversity efforts in the federal workforce<\/a><\/span> \u2026 to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-inauguration-world-reaction-paris-climate-who-withdrawal-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">exiting the Paris climate accords<\/a><\/span> and the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-withdraw-us-world-health-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">World Health Organization<\/a><\/span> \u2026 and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-abortion-funding-mexico-city-policy-hyde-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">reinstating anti-abortion policies<\/a><\/span> from his first term. He has also tried to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-immigration-executive-orders-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">upend the constitutional right to citizenship for all children born on American soil<\/a><\/span>. But a federal judge already <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">put that change on hold<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Chervinsky said, &#8220;We are in a system that has separation of powers. There are supposed to be checks and balances. And it is essential that both Congress and the court do their job to check the president, as the president checks them. That is how the system was designed to work. And I think that should give Americans comfort that they occasionally still want to actually do that role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Executive orders have often been pivotal, and controversial. Think of Lincoln&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/featured-documents\/emancipation-proclamation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emancipation Proclamation<\/a>, or FDR&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lessons-from-the-manhattan-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">funding of the Manhattan Project<\/a><\/span>, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/george-takei-on-world-war-ii-internment-camps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">internment of Japanese Americans in 1942<\/a>. Recall Eisenhower&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/little-rock-school-integration-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">deployment of troops to desegregate Southern schools<\/a><\/span>, and Kennedy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/learn\/about-jfk\/jfk-in-history\/peace-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">creation of the Peace Corps<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In the past decade, there has been a back-and-forth, with Obama, Trump and Biden reversing each other&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Chervinsky said, &#8220;When a president needs to use executive orders to get most of their agenda done, it means either that the agenda is not particularly popular, or it is a reflection of the ills in our current political system. Congress doesn&#8217;t do much.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t pass that much legislation. They&#8217;re kind of a broken institution. So, what we see is that a president is trying to go around that. And until Congress tells them not to, they&#8217;re going to continue doing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have always been periods of fighting, to be sure,&#8221; Chervinsky said. &#8220;American politics is messy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve even called it &#8216;vicious,'&#8221; I said <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That would be an accurate description!&#8221; Chervinsky laughed. <\/p>\n<p>It all recalls Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s answer when asked whether America was a monarchy or a republic. Franklin said, &#8220;A republic, if you can keep it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been through all of this in the past, and here we are today, carrying on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far!&#8221; Chervinsky laughed. &#8220;One of the things that&#8217;s great about history is it reminds us that we can be in really bad periods but come out of it. What I think about our current moment perhaps is different is that we have forgotten that nothing is absolute and nothing is permanent. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The founding generation, they had skin in the game because they had fought in the war, or they had been in Congress when this government was founded. And so, no matter how terrible it was, they never wanted to throw it out completely, because they had tried to build this thing from scratch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of Americans today take for granted that we will always be here,&#8221; Chervinsky said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Ed Forgotson. 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