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It's a bad faith enforcement of the constitution. In democracies like the US, precedents are as powerful as laws. This was not literally breaking any laws, bu
by nscalf 6y ago
It's a bad faith enforcement of the constitution. In democracies like the US, precedents are as powerful as laws. This was not literally breaking any laws, but this was as bad as breaking a law.
- refurb 6y agoFollowing the constitution is “bad faith”?
- anigbrowl 6y agoBut they didn't follow it. They had no duty to consent, but they had a duty to advise, even if in the negative.
- sukilot 6y agoDoing things that are so obviously destructive to the whole institution of government that the Founders thought it wasn't worth writing down in the era of quill pens on sheepskins, because they couldn't imagine anyone being evil enough to do it? Yes, that's what bad faith is. It's things you can technically create a justification for that contradict all decency.