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Liberal supreme court justices’ dissents reveal concerns that the US faces a crisis
(www.theguardian.com)
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Its the dying gasp of American Exceptionalism, at this point.
Ultra right wing types? My guns will save me!
No they fucking won't, not if big daddy government decides to fuck you specifically, they have more people, more ammo, more guns, armored personel carriers and astonishingly better intel than you do.
Liberals? The law will function and stop this! The system will hold!
Ahem, obviously false.
Both of these are ultimately aspects of American society that are drilled into our heads as being exceptional, unique, and basically better than anywhere else on Earth.
Again, obviously false, in its totality, as basically every aspect of that system is now totally unravelling.
We are not facing a crisis, as if its in the future tense.
We have been in the crisis since Jan 6th....
Our entire legal system is now utterly arbitrary.
This ruling means that Trump can issue an EO to break any law, and no judge can immediately order it stop.... it all has to be drawn out in court for years, by which time, the Executive Branch will just have done whatever the fuck it wanted to.
Even if a case is won after some time... and concludes that agents of the Executive Branch did actually break laws, Trump can pardon all of them instantly.
Trump has just effectively done a line item veto on the 14th Amendment.
He can now do that with any other Amendment or law as well.
The law is dead.