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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScott Walker vows that if elected President he will immediately break the law
https://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/walker-ups-ante-once-again-iran-policyScott Walker, in an interview Monday on NPR, upped the ante on his Iran policy and said he wouldnt wait until his inauguration to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal and would instead start acting the day after his presumed election while he is still a private citizen.
In an incredible show of hubris, Walker told John Harmon, guest host of On Point Radio (link is external), as he has in prior interviews, that he would terminate the deal on day one and added but I wouldnt wait for the first day, I would be on the phone on the day after the election working with our allies around the world because this is not only a long-term threat, they are a short-term threat, certainly to Israel.
If Walker hadnt dropped out of college perhaps he would have learned about the Logan Act which prohibits private citizens from meddling in foreign affairs. A violation of the act is a felony.
Being a president-elect does not confer any special status. A president-elect is just a private citizen up until the day of the inauguration. But again, he was absent that day in school.
In an incredible show of hubris, Walker told John Harmon, guest host of On Point Radio (link is external), as he has in prior interviews, that he would terminate the deal on day one and added but I wouldnt wait for the first day, I would be on the phone on the day after the election working with our allies around the world because this is not only a long-term threat, they are a short-term threat, certainly to Israel.
If Walker hadnt dropped out of college perhaps he would have learned about the Logan Act which prohibits private citizens from meddling in foreign affairs. A violation of the act is a felony.
Being a president-elect does not confer any special status. A president-elect is just a private citizen up until the day of the inauguration. But again, he was absent that day in school.
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Scott Walker vows that if elected President he will immediately break the law (Original Post)
Scuba
Jul 2015
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irisblue
(33,023 posts)2. a total wanker.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)3. And this is the RNC's current golden boy
My god this is getting sillier and sillier. They're all seeing who can be more outrageous (i.e. attention-getting) than Trump. How's that working out, boys (and one girl)?
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)4. He could be arrested for doing that...
It is illegal to do such things before being inaugerated.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)5. laws, schmaws - all that really counts is
what Charles and David think
former9thward
(32,080 posts)6. The Logan Act has been around for over 200 years.
And has never been enforced. Every Attorney General for 200 years has known it is unconstitutional.