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Trump Tells Supreme Court It Gave Him 'Unrestricted Power' to Fire People
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Admission that the only thing that would keep him in the bounds of his actual legal authority is the threat of criminal charges for misusing it.
hasn't stopped him before. won't stop him now.
he's gonna stay on this democracy-destroying rage-fueled vendetta against all things biden/obama/liberal until someone forcibly removes him, one way or another.
And the only ones that can remove him forcibly (the GOP) are being threatened, bribed, or bullied into submission.
I've never used this insult before, but they are all clearly a bunch of beta cucks.
Well, yeah. That's how laws work. He's exploiting how much we've relied on social norms and didn't codify the rules.
He and his administration are also ignoring the codified rules.
We relied on reasonable people enforcing the rules, but ignored the fact that they haven't enforced jack shit against Republicans for decades.
The thing with rules is, they only work if they're enforced. That's even one of the balances of power between the branches.
I think a lot of what he did actually is against the law, it's just that the courts take a long time to catch up. In the last week we've seen dozens of lawsuits start to gain steam and probably many of them will successfully undo a lot of the damage that has been done.
We also have to deal with the problem that the courts have been stacked with MAGA judges who also don't care about the law, but that's something we need to blame on them, and not just on Mr. Orange.
Well yeah. That's why the threat is there. By removing it they made the entire system a suggestion, not a requirement.