• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The top of the Executive branch can order these things. Executive, it’s in the name.

    We rely on the courts to check that power. This is Constitution Class 101.

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        5 months ago

        Are you seriously arguing the President cannot order the executive branch of government to, uh, execute his orders? Would we have had this conversation when Obama or Biden was in office and writing executive orders?

        Don’t be silly. Just because Trump is abusing the fuck out of the power, and the courts are hit-and-miss, doesn’t change the Constitution. We can probably agree that the Constitution is no longer worth the paper it’s written on, but it exists and defines our government.

        I feel like I’m arguing with someone that agrees with me.