• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1. You misunderstand this. The Executive is bound to ensure that laws are enforced, but not tasked or powered to do so directly. Congress controls the purse and lawmaking, and the constitution is very clear that President must ENSURE what Congress passes is enforced. That’s extremely clear in Article ii Section iii, and is referred to as the “Take Care Clause”.

    2. Sure, this is not untrue, but as we’ve seen over and over again, if ruling against the constitution, you always create a dead end. So they’ve just passed something stupid that is technically an interpretation in its most idiotically simple way, but they’ve then created a disaster on the other side of the legal process. It can’t work both ways. Unless they gain control over every judge and jurisdiction to exactly as Trump says, they won’t have the ability to control jack shit in this sense. Even after today’s ruling, the experts are already saying they’ve just opened the door to completely drown the courts and SCOTUS with challenges and really fuck over Trump because they’ve closed one door foolishly, and opened another to attack this bullshit from.