{"id":32755,"date":"2025-02-07T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/trumps-blitz-to-expand-his-power-is-direct-threat-to-democracy-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:55:35","slug":"trumps-blitz-to-expand-his-power-is-direct-threat-to-democracy-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/trumps-blitz-to-expand-his-power-is-direct-threat-to-democracy-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s blitz to expand his power is direct threat to democracy, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive actions aims to test limits of president\u2019s authority and perhaps win backing from conservative supreme court<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s spate of executive orders include many aimed at expanding his presidential powers in areas that pose threats to the rule of law and democratic norms in the US, say legal experts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s orders include the abrupt firing of 17 agency watchdogs called inspectors general without giving Congress the required 30 days\u2019 notice, the rejection of birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, which is guaranteed by the 14th amendment, and pardons for more than 1,500 people convicted for their roles in the January 6 Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/07\/trump-executive-actions-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive actions aims to test limits of president\u2019s authority and perhaps win backing from conservative supreme court Donald Trump\u2019s spate of executive orders include many aimed at expanding his presidential powers in areas that pose threats to the rule of law and democratic norms in the US, say legal experts. Trump\u2019s orders include the abrupt &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s blitz to expand his power is direct threat to democracy, experts say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/trumps-blitz-to-expand-his-power-is-direct-threat-to-democracy-experts-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s blitz to expand his power is direct threat to democracy, experts say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}