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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by pbhjpbhj on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:59AM (#24081860)
>Congress specifically gives the president the power to counter unfair trade practices by foreign governments. The president executes the laws, he doesn't dictate them. //

Those two sentences are mutually contradictory. Who has the power, the President or Congress. If it's the former, then he does dictate them; if the later then they don't give the power to the President. Pick one?

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by perennate on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:02AM (#24081918)
It is not contradictory at all. The parent comment stated that Congress has the power to pass the laws, which give the president the power to counter unfair trade practices. It is how the U.S. government (and most forms of democratic government) is structured, with separate legislative branch and executive branch.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by pbhjpbhj on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:07AM (#24091352)
So the president in your idea of democracy is given power to act outside of the law?
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by perennate on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:58PM (#24096216)
He is acting within the law, which is called the IEEPA and was passed by the legislative branch.
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