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Come on. Nobody is making the president a king just because we expect lawsuits to follow the normal path through the courts. Wanting judges to stay in their lane isn’t authoritarian, it’s basic constitutional structure.


He can sign unconstitutional EOs, and the only folks who can get relief are those who have a lawyer on call, or a class action, or can pull enough strings to get their case appealed to the court which he clearly has in his back pocket.

(In addition to other fun things like immunity from criminal prosecution forever, cannot even be investigated in most cases, and cannot be disqualified from office after inciting a riot to stop the transfer of power.)




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