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TheThrillOfTime 89 points a year ago

I think it's naive to think that "writing different words" would have any impact.

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HawlSera 35 points a year ago

The only words to write are "Mr. President we find you in contempt of court."

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JasonDJ 8 points a year ago

Just keep on holding presidents in contempt until you get someone rational. I think the first stop for that is Rubio.

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thedruid -6 points a year ago

the legislature cant charge the president with anything while in the official act of his duties. congress has to, and they wont

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tpihkal 13 points a year ago

This is not the first time that the Executive branch has ignored Supreme Court orders. See Worcester v. Georgia and the dispute between Chief Justice Roger Taney and General Cadwalader.

The problem is that the Executive branch is (theoretically) supposed to uphold the decisions of the Judicial branch, but irl, enforcement of those decisions is easier said than done when the Executive branch disagrees.

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kryptonianCodeMonkey 9 points a year ago

It wouldn't have changed their actions, but it would have rid them of any plausible deniability that they had committed contempt of the Supreme Court in doing so. It would have made the constitutional crisis that we ARE in undeniable, and even the idiots at Fox News couldn't pretend that the administration followed the order by "allowing" his return if El Salvador just so happened to send him back. As it is now, you will have many MAGA believing that the administration is in compliance with the court's orders and did nothing wrong. They would have at least had to face the truth if there was no wiggle room, and maybe some would actually acknowledge that the administration is in the wrong about this one thing at least.

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anomnom 3 points a year ago

The impact would have been to highlight how feckless the checks and balances are.

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Almacca 2 points a year ago

And regardless, doing nothing doesn't even meet the low standard of 'facilitating'.

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orcrist 2 points a year ago
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TheThrillOfTime 2 points a year ago

I don't think it's impossible to make the situation better. I think he's dismantling the rule of law. For the entirety of the post industrial revolution era, we've been governed by words written down, but that was not the case of most of history. Before that, might governed. If you could do something and nobody could physically stop you, then you got your was. Trump is trying to take us back to that.

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OutlierBlue 1 point a year ago

No but doing it officially makes it clear where things sit right now.

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