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> The system simply cannot work if any district judge anywhere can veto the president's policies. Except that it's been working just fine that way since before
by kelnos 1y ago
> The system simply cannot work if any district judge anywhere can veto the president's policies.
Except that it's been working just fine that way since before I was born, so, empirically, you're wrong.
> the president was going to be forced to start ignoring injunctions [...] The Roberts court had to make this ruling for the government to function.
So basically you're saying their way to legitimize Trump ignoring court orders is to de-legitimize an entire type of court order that has been commonplace and accepted for 50 years.
This sounds like "we'll change the law so Trump doesn't have to break it". Authoritarianism it is, then, I guess.
- laughing_man 1y agoIt used to work because District court justices used to operate within the limits of their constitutional authority. For the most part. National injunctions are a relatively new thing, and certainly the volume of injunctions from such a small number of justices is unique to the second Trump administration. I am legitimizing Trump ignoring national preliminary injunctions by district court judges, yes. These judges have broken the system.