{"id":2452539,"date":"2019-12-23T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/checks-balances-and-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-12-24T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:00:52","slug":"checks-balances-and-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/checks-balances-and-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Checks, balances and Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nancy Pelosi, in her infinite political wisdom, should wait for the courts to rule on whether the executive branch has immunity from oversight under Article 2 of the Constitution. We need to understand where the courts stand, or fall, on the constitutional power struggles facing the nation. If the courts reach a verdict that the president is not subject to the checks and balances that we were taught when civics classes were still a thing, our republic is in far more trouble than many conceive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If Donald Trump is honorable, his innocence will withstand the scrutiny of a full investigation. If he is above scrutiny, we live in a dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Johnny Boyd<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/checks-balances-and-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Pelosi, in her infinite political wisdom, should wait for the courts to rule on whether the executive branch has immunity from oversight under Article 2 of the Constitution. We need to understand where the courts stand, or fall, on the constitutional power struggles facing the nation. If the courts reach a verdict that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 00:53:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452556,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452539\/revisions\/2452556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}