America is an unserious country
And no President can ignore the Courts.
I’ve never in my life wanted so bad to wake up to a news story about another person dying.
It’s the only reason why I immediately check on here. I truly want Elon dead immediately and then Trump.
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”
-Supreme Court, Marbury vs Madison
The more important take from this article is that Trump has escalated his claims and now claims that nothing he does is subject to judicial review at all.
The scary part is that there is a non-zero chance that the Supreme Court could rule in his favor. And at that point, God help us all.
If the supreme court agrees, we’ll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.
I’m going to assume it does nothing, and all the gun deaths were for nothing.
The second amendment was created to make it impossible for the president to have a standing army.
That was the whole “militia” thing. Federalist Paper 29 covers the entirety of it in like … 12 paragraphs.
The states would have to require every man to own a firearm and train to be in a militia as designated by Congress that would muster for national defense because armies make empires. And newly created US Americans wanted to be free of imperial horseshit.
The second amendment wasn’t to defeat a president who broke bad. Men elected to POTUS were never supposed to be like Trump. And that was our, as US Americans, biggest blindspot. That an American president would never treat Americans like how American presidents treat smaller nations.
I am optimistic the SCOTUS won’t take the bait. Not because they’re against Trump, but rather because they don’t seem as eager to surrender their own power than Congress is. Even in their notoriously pro-Trump rulings last year, they took care to keep the Judiciary involved in interpreting the extent of the Executive’s powers.
Yet Roberts and the scrotus were fuckin dumb enough to give potus nearly complete immunity, which is functionally the same. If the courts rule against any specific action there is nothing to stop him from immediately doing it again.
Go read that ruling again. It was nearly complete immunity for official acts, with the courts deciding what constitutes an official act. It was as much of a power grab for the Judiciary as the Presidency.
At that point, he’ll die, Vance will take his place, and will be so un-charismatic that he’ll be defeated by a Democrat in 2028 which will find themselves with all this power thanks to the Supreme Court… but will prefer to take the high road and reach across the aisle only to get fucked once again.
Well, I tried.
Nah even if they tried SCOTUS would figure out some way to suddenly narrow it’s ruling. And being a good Democrat they’d comply.
There’s already a path for them to do this.
Trump is already calling for a ban on nationwide injunctions, saying that any injunctions or rulings can only be applied to the specific people involved in the lawsuit and are not binding anywhere else.
If Congress passes such a bill, Trump will certainly sign it.
And once that happens, the Supreme Court could at that point just anoint Trump with whatever powers he wants and not have to worry about those powers being used by the next President, since their rulings would only apply to Trump by default, which is exactly what he wants. It would literally turn our judicial system into Calvinball.
I’m pretty sure that would effectively end all state mandates to participate in the Constitution, effectively dissolving it.
It’s very clear that Trump does not realize that dissolving the Constitution means states no longer need to adhere to the joined Republic. That agreement IS the Republic. If it no longer exists, then States are their own territories, and DC is nothing.
States activate their reserve guard forces, assume control of stationed assets, and stop sending DC money. That’s it. Then it’s every state for itself, and guess where all the good shit is he thinks he’s just going to order around? In those “Coastal Elite” states he’s always belittling.
No incoming money, no people to order around, and only his little cavalcade of dipshits who no longer have positions of power…
As somebody else had mentioned, he’d be killed in a heartbeat, and then the groveling and backtracking would immediately begin to try and undo what he’s done.
Any backtracking would be useless, once the country is gone there is no way to put it back together without a lot of bloody violence. Even then it will be a powder keg ready to explode again as soon as the leader who managed to put it back together is gone.
These 50 states are held together by a common history and the republic they participate in. The history is meaningless once the republic is gone. At least we will get to see the birth of a bunch of new nations. But that will come with a ton of war as the wanna dictators in red states try to take whatever they can.
