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Please take your fear mongering elsewhere.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > fear mongering Nobody is suggesting this is realistic. If you’re going to do what I described, you go all the way and hold the Congress at gunpoint. (That’s been a risk we’ve trusted in the Presidency since at least the New Deal, and nobody in power seems unhappy about it.) What we’re asking is whether it would be legal. Arguing ad absurdum has a long tradition in law. Usually it’s constrained to academia by the “cases and controversies” clause, but SCOTUS is no longer narrowly deciding cases. (“Decision for the ages” and the Warren court.) It’s used to uncover internal inconsistency. (Also, “FUD” isn’t an argument.)