Trump’s ‘Catch-Me-If-You-Can’ Presidency Keeps Finding Ways Around the Law
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- Donald Trump’s face appears on a US coin despite a law that appears to prohibit living presidents from appearing on currency.
- The article says the Treasury Department used a different law concerning commemorative coins to enable the issue.
Donald Trump’s presidency keeps finding ways around legal limits, the article argues, likening it to a game of “Catch-Me-If-You-Can.”
A straightforward reading of the law governing presidents on coins says that the face of a living president should not appear on currency. Yet Trump’s does.
The article says the Treasury Department got around that restriction by relying on a separate law concerning commemorative coins. It also begins to cite another provision stating that a president must not commit the US military to hostilities for longer, but the supplied text ends before completing that point.
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Originally published by Egypt Independent in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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