FEMA sent $59 million to high end hotels last week
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The entire point of what the Trump admin is doing is to directly challenge the limits to executive power. In a nation ruled by law, you’re correct, the President’s actions can be limited by court rulings, which the President can challenge legally and so forth and so on, but ultimately the executive must obey the judicial unless the executive can work with the legislative to change the law.
What is happening now, however, is this administration clearly intends to simply ignore court rulings, and in fact they already are, and they are actively removing federal employees who would obey court orders so that they can replace them with loyalists who would be willing to break the law for the President. The supreme court helped set the stage for this by giving the President immunity, however those below the President don’t have immunity, who knows if he intends to issue thousands of pardons for federal employees who break the law on his behalf.
We will then have the single greatest crisis of law in our country since the Civil War, where we have to decide what to do about it when the executive simply ignores court orders, continues to do illegal things, and then issues mass pardons to the point that enforcement of federal law becomes moot.
The Constitutional process for that, I suppose, would be impeachment, but I think the legislative branch of our government has spent the better part of the last couple of decades making itself almost entirely pointless and I don’t think you could get the house and congress to agree that the color of grass is green.
We have not given the executive the power of a King, but we have told him that if you act like a King, no one is going to do anything to stop you.
There is a thing called "separation of powers" and the judge has overstepped his power and is about to be impeached...
May be true, but until that point that his ruling is overturned on appeal or he is impeached, it can not be legally ignored. Because there is this thing called “separation of powers”
Joe Biden repeatedly defied the Supreme Court on student loan debt “cancellation.”
The hypocrisy of Democrats saying leaders should listen to judges is astounding. Especially after Pennsylvania blatantly defied the Supreme Court when it came to elections.
This is categorically untrue. The loan forgiveness plan that was struck down by the Supreme Court was never implemented, instead the administration used a different program that was not a part of the Supreme Court decision to lower the cost of student loan payments on a monthly basis rather than outright forgive them. And there are elements of that student loan plan that are still working their way through the courts.
I didn’t really support the Biden admin’s policies around student loans, but to say he defied the supreme court is demonstrably false, but I know you guys don’t do well with things like “context” and “nuance.”
I’m not sure what this is even in reference to, but I would assume it would very much fall into the same category as the above assertion.
