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Trump doesn't have the authority
Authority only matters when there's an enforcement mechanism.
When the courts are stacked with your yes men then authority means nothing. When Congress is stacked with sycophants then authority means nothing.
To Republicans the rule of law is "I make the rules and are not bound by them. Democrats cannot change the rules and are bound by them."
To Republicans the rule of law is "I make the rules and are not bound by them. Democrats cannot change the rules and are bound by them."
AKA Wilhoit's Law:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition ... There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. --Frank Wilhoit
That definitely stopped him from trying before, right ? And when he tries, sometimes he gets what he wants because he's surrounded by yes men and spineless cowards.
Yeah he's going after USPS to target mail-in voting.
Exactly!
States have the authority to run their elections how they see fit.
And the executive branch has no authority over the states. The president can't order a state to do anything. Not even a presidential parden has power over state courts.
Yeah, let's just keep saying that.
It means that when he's gone nobody can protect themselves with "I was following orders", we can send them all to prison
Just like last time?
Get a majority to reform SCOTUS.
Enforce 14A3 disqualification from the day he sabotaged the pandemic response against Democratic led states to punish political opponents. Declare everything he did since invalid and illegal.
Get these two through and he's done, along with every single collaborator.
So if you want him gone and want total accountability, join the crowd demanding his disqualification.
Big Ned Stark energy.
The only authority tyrants care about is what they're able to do.
What they're SUPPOSED to be ALLOWED to do doesn't interest them in the least.
The vast majority of the things Trump has done in his second term (and a few in the first) have been outside of the constitutional powers of the presidency, but that didn't stop him and his enablers.
I had a spare official copy of my birth certificate made specifically because of what he and his cronies have been doing. Be ready.
ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’
Like, by all means, make the preparations you need to make. But don't be fooled into thinking a thug with a gun will be deterred by a piece of paper when that thug has a quota to fill.
They have denaturalization quotas too
Turns out when a corrupt Supreme Court stops caring about the Constitution, the Constitution stops mattering.
It stopped mattering long before then, when the GOP stopped caring and the DNC stopped caring more about protecting it from Republican attacks than about shielding their corporate owner donors from the slightest inconvenience.
So somewhere around the turn of the century, 2010 at the latest? 🤷🏻
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't this negatively affect Republicans more than democrats?
They do love to shoot themselves in the foot, but in this case, I'd rather not wait to find out.
I think it's supposed to work in tandem with their reduction of polling sites in blue cities that are in red states.
Makes it so that actually casting a ballot on election day is impossible for as many Democrats as possible.
Oregon only votes by mail too
God, I hate this asshole so very much. The guy is single-handedly trying to ruin every good thing in the United States.
Guess people up here in Oregon are just fucked then?
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