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In several instances dating back to the start of his Senate campaign in 2022, the vice president has explicitly said that a second-term Trump should defy the courts — even the U.S. Supreme Court — if they stand in the way of him exercising executive authority in ways he deems fit.
Yet we're only hearing about this interview once he's in power?
Vance is right. There are no consequences, so everything is allowed.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
-- Reputed last words of Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Order of Assassins.
Yes, they do use that phrase in the Assassin's Creed games, but that's not really relevant here.
Well, it depends. If everyone does what Trump says instead of what the court says then that's true. If the people who actually do the work do what the court says, then that's not true.
Possible consequences (copied from Russia, 1993):
- tanks fire at parliament, speaker of parliament urges air force to bomb the Kremlin (they didn't)
- subsequently, the president gets powers resembling a monarch, and installs the next president, who evolves into a president-for-life
How to avoid -> most likely, refusal of all agencies to follow an order that a court has struck down. But for this to work, mass replacement of public officials with loyalists must be prevented.
The Supreme Court are going to rule themselves out of a job.
As long as they get a new RV and unlimited trips I think they would make that trade. They aren't actually there to adjudicate the law, they are there to allow King Don and his gutting of our democracy.
Didn’t John Oliver make this deal and no one took him up on it?
Essentially, I think his offer was a new mega RV and a million a year out of his own pocket every year.
The echelon of people they think they belong to will eat them alive at the blink of an eye. You don't put alcoholics, insurrectionist and rapists in office without the intended threat of using that information to destroy them the second they are no longer needed.
That got settled when Andrew Jackson wasn't dragged out of the White House and reinforced when he's not universally seen for the criminal autocrat he was.
Why would he need to if they're already effectively in his pocket?
He wants them to have existential fear that keeps them in his pocket
I guess packing the courts with bootlickers wasn't enough for them
I'm trying to think of a reason he can't and am coming up empty. Nobody will do anything about it.
Lol. "against" the supreme court? The grand majority gargle Trump's balls regularly.